Powdered fat/oil composition, food including powdered fat/oil composition, and methods for producing same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11292989-B2
Application number	US-201515327734-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 22, 2015
Priority date	Jul 22, 2014
Publication date	Apr 5, 2022
Grant date	Apr 5, 2022

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a powdered fat and/or oil composition, a food containing the powdered fat and/or oil composition, and methods for producing these. Specifically, provided are a fat and/or oil composition containing 65 to 99% by mass of a XXX triglyceride and 35 to 1% by mass of X2Y triglycerides, a powdered fat and/or oil composition obtained from the fat and/or oil composition, a food containing the powdered fat and/or oil composition, and methods for producing these.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A powdered fat and/or oil composition comprising:
65 to 99% by mass of one type of a XXX triglyceride having fatty acid residues X, each with x carbon atoms, at positions 1 to 3; and
35 to 1% by mass of one or more types of X2Y triglycerides each having a fatty acid residue Y with y carbon atoms in place of one of the fatty acid residues X of the XXX triglyceride,
provided that a total triglyceride content is 100% by mass, wherein
x number of carbon atoms is an integer selected from 8 to 20, and
y number of carbon atoms is an integer selected from x+2 to x+12 independently from the other y and satisfying y≤22.

2. The powdered fat and/or oil composition according to claim 1 , comprising:
80 to 99% by mass of the XXX triglyceride; and
20 to 1% by mass of the one or more types of X2Y triglycerides in total.

3. The powdered fat and/or oil composition according to claim 1 , wherein
the x is an integer selected from 10 to 18, and
the y is an integer selected from x+2 to x+10 independently from the other y and satisfying y≤22.

4. The powdered fat and/or oil composition according to claim 1 , wherein
the x is an integer selected from 10 to 12, and
the y is an integer selected from x+4 to x+8 independently from the other y and satisfying y≤22.

5. The powdered fat and/or oil composition according to claim 1 , which has a loose bulk density of 0.1 to 0.6 g/cm 3 .

6. A food comprising the powdered fat and/or oil composition according to claim 1 .

7. The food according to claim 6 , wherein a content of the powdered fat and/or oil composition is 0.1 to 99% by mass relative to a total mass of the food.

8. The food according to claim 6 , wherein the food is a powdered food.

9. The food according to claim 6 , wherein the food is a ketogenic diet.

10. A method for producing a powdered fat and/or oil composition, comprising the following steps of:
(a) preparing a fat and/or oil composition containing 65 to 99% by mass of a XXX triglyceride having fatty acid residues X, each with x carbon atoms, at positions 1 to 3, and 35 to 1% by mass of one or more types of X2Y triglycerides each having a fatty acid residue Y with y carbon atoms in place of one of the fatty acid residues X of the XXX triglyceride, provided that a total triglyceride content is 100% by mass, wherein x number of carbon atoms is an integer selected from 8 to 20, and y number of carbon atoms is an integer selected from x+2 to x+12 independently from the other y and satisfying y≤22; and
(d) cooling the fat and/or oil composition in a molten state to obtain a powdered fat and/or oil composition.

11. The method according to claim 10 , comprising, before step (d), a step of (b) heating the fat and/or oil composition obtained in step (a) to melt the triglycerides incorporated in the fat and/or oil composition, thereby obtaining the fat and/or oil composition in the molten state.

12. The method according to claim 10 , comprising a seeding step (c1), a tempering step (c2), and/or a pre-cooling step (c3), wherein
the seeding step (c1) includes adding 0.1 to 1 part by mass of a fat and/or oil powder containing the XXX triglyceride to 100 parts by mass of the fat and/or oil composition during the cooling in step (d),
the tempering step (c2) includes maintaining a temperature, which is lower by 5 to 20° C. than a cooling temperature in step (d), before the cooling in step (d), and
the pre-cooling step (c3) includes pre-cooling the fat and/or oil composition in the molten state used in step (d) at a temperature higher than the cooling temperature in step (d).

13. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the powdered fat and/or oil composition obtained in step (d) is obtained by step (e) of pulverizing a solid resulting after the cooling in step (d) to obtain a powdered fat and/or oil composition.

14. The method according to claim 10 , wherein
the x is an integer selected from 10 to 18, and
the y is an integer selected from x+2 to x+10 independently from the other y and satisfying y≤22.

15. The method according to claim 10 , wherein
the x is an integer selected from 10 to 12, and
the y is an integer selected from x+4 to x+8 independently from the other y and satisfying y≤22.

16. The method according to claim 10 , wherein
the fat and/or oil composition obtained in step (a) is a fat and/or oil composition obtained through steps of:
mixing the XXX triglyceride and a YYY triglyceride having fatty acid residues Y, each with y carbon atoms, at positions 1 to 3 at a mass ratio of XXX triglyceride/YYY triglyceride being 90/10 to 99/1 to obtain a reaction substrate; and
heating the reaction substrate, followed by an interesterification in presence of a catalyst.

17. The method according to claim 10 , wherein the fat and/or oil composition obtained in step (a) is produced by direct synthesis from raw materials including fatty acids or raw materials including fatty acid derivatives and glycerin.

18. A method for producing a food containing a powdered fat and/or oil composition, the method comprising the steps of:
producing a powdered fat and/or oil composition by the method according to claim 10 ; and
(f) adding the powdered fat and/or oil composition to a food raw material to obtain a food containing the powdered fat and/or oil composition.

19. A food additive comprising a powdered fat and/or oil composition comprising:
65 to 99% by mass of a XXX triglyceride having fatty acid residues X, each with x carbon atoms, at positions 1 to 3; and
35 to 1% by mass of one or more types of X2Y triglycerides each having a fatty acid residue Y with y carbon atoms in place of one of the fatty acid residues X of the XXX triglyceride
provided that a total triglyceride content is 100% by mass, wherein
x number of carbon atoms is an integer selected from 8 to 20, and
x number of carbon atoms is an integer selected from x+2 to x+12 independently from the other y and satisfying y≤22.

Assignees

• Nisshin Oillio Group Ltd

Inventors

• Oonishi Kiyomi
• AIBARA Tomohiro
• Murayama Noriko
• TSUKIYAMA Muneo
• TAKEGUCHI Seiya
• Uehara Hidetaka
• Kobayashi Tatsuya
• Denda Hirofumi

Classifications

• C11C3/06 Primary

  with glycerol · CPC title

• C11C3/02

  by esterification of fatty acids with glycerol · CPC title

• A23G1/36

  characterised by the fats used (containing dairy products A23G1/46) · CPC title

• C11C3/10

  Ester interchange · CPC title

• A23D9/04

  Working-up · CPC title