Cheese coating composition and method for producing a protective coating on cheese
AssigneeDanisco A/S
InventorsBirgitte Mikkelsen, Michael B. Bern, Svend Eriksen
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Abstract
An improved cheese coating composition comprising specifically defined acetic acid esters of monoglycerides of long-chain fatty acids predominantly comprising stearic acid and behenic acid and a method for producing protective coatings on cheese, as well as a body of cheese bearing on its surface a coating of the improved coating composition.
Claims14
A coating composition suitable when molten for the application of an improved protective coating to cheese that is flexible, tough, non-greasy and easy to peel consisting essentially of acetic acid esters of a monoglyceride of mixed substantially fully saturated long-chain fatty acids having a chain length in excess of 10 carbon atoms of which stearic acid and behenic acid in combination constitute more than 80 percent by weight of such long-chain fatty acids and stearic acid constitutes approximately 12.9 to 53 percent by weight of said long-chain fatty acids and behenic acid constitutes approximately 38 to 82.5 percent by weight of said long-chain fatty acids, wherein the proportion of acetic acid esters within the composition is at least 90 percent by weight of the total composition, wherein approximately 40 to 57 percent of the total composition constitutes diacetic acid esters and approximately 40 to 50 percent by weight of the total composition constitutes monoacetic acid esters, wherein the average number of carbon atoms of said long-chain fatty acids is approximately 19.2 to 21.5, and wherein the composition has a melting point of at least 48.degree. C. determined by differential scanning calorimetry.
A method for imparting an improved protective coating to a body of cheese comprising:
- (a) applying to said cheese a layer of the improved coating composition while molten at a temperature of 55.degree. to 100.degree. C. wherein said composition consists essentially of acetic acid esters of a monoglyceride of mixed substantially fully saturated long-chain fatty acids having a chain length in excess of 10 carbon atoms of which stearic acid and behenic acid in combination constitute more than 80 percent by weight of such long-chain fatty acids and stearic acid constitutes approximately 12.9 to 53 percent by weight of said long-chain fatty acids and behenic acid constitutes approximately 38 to 82.5 percent by weight of said long-chain fatty acids, wherein the proportion of acetic acid esters within the composition is at least 90 percent by weight of the total composition, wherein approximately 40 to 57 percent of the total composition constitutes diacetic acid esters and approximately 40 to 50 percent by weight of the total composition constitutes monoacetic acid esters, wherein the average number of carbon atoms of said long-chain fatty acids is approximately 19.2 to 21.5, and wherein the composition has a melting point of at least 48.degree. C. determined by differential scanning calorimetry, and
- (b) allowing said layer to solidify by cooling to form a protective coating that is tough, non-greasy and easy to peel.
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