Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Product with added plural inorganic mineral or element...
Patent
1999-05-13
2000-12-26
Paden, Carolyn
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Product with added plural inorganic mineral or element...
426554, 426588, 426595, 426607, A23D 900, A23C 2100, A23C 1700, A23L 1304, A23F 546
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06165518&
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Free flowing fat compositions are commercially available. In some of these commercially available compositions 10-20 wt % of a natural fish oil is present. In order to make these compositions free flowing a support material, such as a starch or a sugar must be present as well and even then these compositions could not contain more than 25 wt % of the fish oil(s). Therefore, these compositions had a limited use, as they do provide on the one hand the advantages of being free flowing, they also had the disadvantage that only a limited amount of fish oil could be added by using them in e.g. food products. Therefore, there existed a great demand for free flowing fat compositions with which also higher dosages of polyunsaturated triglycerides, such as fish oil or conjugated linoleic acids (=CLA's) could be added upon its use.
DESCRIPTION OF RELEATED ART
According to WO 94/00146 marine oils are blended with solid fats in such a way that the marine oils become part of the crystalline structure of the solid fat. This blend is applied in liquid state to porous pellets of undefined nature, followed by cooling and crystallisation of the fat. Examples of the solid fat are tempered rapeseed oil, monoglycerides, diglycerides or mixes thereof. The product is applied as fodder for aquatic organisms.
From JP 07/133491 it is known to prepare oil soluble substances containing solid materials by adding a liquid oil soluble substance to silica gel and solidifying it. The liquid oil soluble substance includes poly unsaturated fatty acid compounds. The compositions according to this disclosure have the disadvantage that relatively high amounts of an inorganic filler material (=silica gel) have to be present in the compositions, which makes them less useful in food compositions. Moreover we found that the amount of fish oil that could be incorporated in compositions that were free flowing was rather limited. In JP 03/269096 it is disclosed that fluid compositions that contain oils such as fish oil or hardenend fish oil can be obtained if they are blended with 20-70 wt % of flour, in particular soybean flour. So again these products require the presence of a filler material. The presence of such a filler is not always appreciated in food products. In that instance this document does not reveal a solution for compositions that are free flowing, contain relatively high amounts of fish oil but that do not contain a filler material. Also in EP 425 213 free flowing compositions are disclosed that require the presence of filler materials such as starch or caseinate.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
We found that the presence of a hard fat in our compositions provided us with compositions that contain high amounts of poly unsaturated fats, are still free flowing and do not require the presence of a filler. It should be understood that a filler material can be present as well, however the hard fat should also be present in that instance.
Therefore we found that by applying a hard fat in combination with the long chain polyunsaturated triglycerides, with or without a filler (or support) material, compositions could be obtained that were free flowing and which would enable us to add higher dosages (ie at least 10 wt %) of long chain polyunsaturated triglycerides.
Therefore, our invention concerns a free flowing fat composition comprising:
(i) a blend of fats (A) and (B) in a weight ratio of 90:10 to 10:90
(ii) 0-95 wt % of a filler material wherein fat A is a fat with at least 0.5 wt % of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, preferably being w-3 fatty acids or conjugated linoleic acids and fat B is a hard fat, so that [N.sub.30 (unstab) of the fat (A) or the blend+% filler in composition] is at least 70, preferably at least 75, in particular 80-160.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Above compositions have a number of benefits over known compositions:
(1) using above composition can avoid the introduction of non lipid materials in the systems, wherein they are applied.
(2) higher concentrations of
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Cain Frederick William
Dekker Willem
Moore Stephen Raymond
Loders Croklaan B.V.
Paden Carolyn
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