Heat-stable oil and water emulsion and preparation thereof
AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorsLadislas Colarow, Gerard Masson, Hans U. Trueck
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Abstract
An egg yolk fortified with exogenous soybean lysophosphatidylcholine contained in exogenous soybean lysophospholipids is employed as an emulsification agent in oil and water emulsions, particularly in emulsions which are sterilized. The agent may be obtained by hydrolyzing phospholipids derived from soybeans with phospholipase A2, deactivating the phospholipase A2 with a proteolytic enzyme and then inactivating the proteolytic enzyme by heat-treatment at a temperature of from 80.degree. C. to 90.degree. C., and then, egg yolk is fortified by combining and homogenizing the so-obtained lysophospholipids, or exogenous phospholipids containing lysophosphatidylcholine otherwise obtained, with egg yolk.
Claims17
A process for the preparation of an oil and water emulsion comprising hydrolyzing phospholipids of soybean origin with phospholipase A2 to obtain an homogenate containing lysophospholipids and lysophosphatidylcholine, adding a proteolytic enzyme suitable for inactivating the phospholipase A2 to the homogenate to inactivate the phospholipase A2 and then heating the homogenate to a temperature of from 80.degree. C. to 90.degree. C. to inactivate the proteolytic enzyme, combining the enzyme-inactivated homogenate with egg yolk stabilized with a substance selected from the group consisting of salt and sucrose to obtain a mixture, homogenizing the mixture to obtain egg yolk fortified with lysophosphatidylcholine, mixing the fortified egg yolk with oil, water and acetic acid to form an emulsion and sterilizing the emulsion.
An oil and water emulsion comprising, by weight, between 3% and 85% oil, water and acetic acid and between 1% and 10% of an emulsification agent comprising a homogenate of egg yolk, of exogenous soybean lysophopholipid (LPL) containing lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) and of an egg yolk stabilizer substance selected from the group consisting of salt and sucrose, wherein the emulsion contains between 0.1 g and 5 g LPC per 1000 g emulsion.
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