Appeal No. 1998-2229
Application 08/491,663
THE INVENTION
The appellants claim a fat continuous stick product,
e.g., margarine, made by a recited process. Claim 1 is
illustrative:
1. A fat continuous stick product having up to 80% of a
fat containing less than 10% trans fatty acids prepared by a
process comprising the steps of:
(1) selecting a structuring amount of a hardstock fat to
make a stick product, the hardstock fat having a level of
trans fatty acids not exceeding 10% and prepared by randomly
interesterifying a mixture containing 30-75 wt.% of an oil(i)
in which at least 20% of the fatty acids residues consist of
linoleic acid and 25-70 wt.% of a fat (ii) in which at least
80% of the fatty acid residues is saturated and has a chain
link of at least 16 carbons and then fractionating the
interesterified mixture to obtain an olefin fraction having a
solid fat content of:
N = 22-80,
10
N = 8-60,
20
N = 1-25,
30
N = 0.15;
35
(2) selecting an effective amount of an oil which is
liquid at room temperature selected from the group consisting
of soybean oil, sunflower oil, fish oil, rapeseed oil, coconut
oil, peanut oil, palm oil, corn oil, sesame oil, sardine oil,
lard, tallow and mixtures thereof;
(3) combining the hardstock fat of step (1) and the
liquid oil of step(2) to form a fat phase;
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