Spreads and other products including mesomorphic phases
AssigneeVan den Bergh Foods Co., Division of Conopco, Inc.
InventorsLeendert H. Wesdorp, Keith D. Brilhart
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Abstract
Mesomorphic phases of edible surfactants can advantageously be added to food products to provide for example structuring or fat-replacement. Preferably the mesomorphic phases are present as bulk phases in finished or ready to eat food products. The compositions include lactose.
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A finished foodstuff having bulk regions of a mesomorphic phase of edible surfactant which structures the foodstuff, less than 80% wt edible oil and lactose, cake batters not constituting finished foodstuffs, said surfactant being selected from the group consisting of edible monoglycerides, diglycerides, non-ionic phospholipids, non-fatty carboxylic acid esters of fatty acid esters, partial sugar-fatty acid esters, partial fatty acid esters of polyols, mixtures thereof, cationic surfactants, and anionic surfactants and mixtures thereof, said mesomorphic phase not being made from a cake batter incorporating mesomorphic phase emulsifiers.
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