Medium chain triglyceride based oil phase in water microemulsions
AssigneeTepperwein Collection AG
InventorFrantisek Pancurak
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Abstract
The invention relates to an oil in water microemulsion comprising a water solubility agent composition designed for preparing a MCT based oil phase in water microemulsion. The water solubility agent composition is based on using sucrose ester as emulsifier and lecithin as co-emulsifier. The invention further relates to a method of emulsifying a MCT based oil phase to form an oil in water microemulsion, a food product comprising the MCT based oil phase in water microemulsion in diluted form and the use of a water solubility agent composition for dispersing an MCT based oil phase in water.
Claims15
An oil in water microemulsion comprising:
- a. a medium chain triglyceride (MCT) based oil phase and
- b. a water solubility agent composition,
- characterized in that
- the water solubility agent composition comprises
- c. water as main solvent,
- d. a sucrose ester as main emulsifier,
- e. a lecithin as co-emulsifier in combination with the sucrose ester,
- f. a polyol as co-solvent in combination with water,
- g. a monosaccharide as emulsification energy barrier reduction agent, and
- h. a short to medium chain alcohol as stabilizer
- wherein
- the water solubility agent composition combines with the MCT based oil phase such that an oil in water microemulsion with the MCT based oil phase dispersed in water providing a d90 droplet size within the range of 10 to 100 nm is provided.
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