US 12,256,755 B2
Process for preparing a fat slurry and for preparing a spread with said slurry
Albert Jan Bezemer, Spijkenisse (NL); Johannes Jozef Marie Janssen, Rotterdam (NL); and Marcel Stevens, Brasschaat (BE)
Assigned to FLORA FOOD GLOBAL PRINCIPAL B.V., Amsterdam (NL)
Appl. No. 15/517,418
Filed by Flora Food Global Principal B.V., Amsterdam (NL)
PCT Filed Oct. 9, 2015, PCT No. PCT/EP2015/073335
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 6, 2017,
PCT Pub. No. WO2016/058913, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 21, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 14188657 (EP), filed on Oct. 13, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2017/0251690 A1, Sep. 7, 2017
Int. Cl. A23D 9/05 (2006.01); A21D 2/16 (2006.01); A23D 7/00 (2006.01); A23D 7/005 (2006.01); A23D 7/04 (2006.01); A23D 9/00 (2006.01); A23D 9/007 (2006.01); A23D 9/04 (2006.01); A23L 9/20 (2016.01); A23L 33/115 (2016.01); C11B 15/00 (2006.01); A23L 27/60 (2016.01)
CPC A23D 9/05 (2013.01) [A21D 2/16 (2013.01); A23D 7/001 (2013.01); A23D 7/0056 (2013.01); A23D 7/04 (2013.01); A23D 9/00 (2013.01); A23D 9/007 (2013.01); A23D 9/04 (2013.01); A23L 9/24 (2016.08); A23L 33/115 (2016.08); C11B 15/00 (2013.01); A23L 27/60 (2016.08); A23V 2002/00 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
 
1. A process for preparing an edible fat slurry comprising 60-98% by weight (of the total slurry of oil and fat powder) of an edible oil phase and 2-40% by weight (of the total slurry of oil and fat powder) of a fat powder, wherein the fat powder is a powder of a structuring fat and has a bulk density of from 40 to 300 g/L, said process comprising the steps of:
a) providing the fat powder in a mixing vessel;
b) providing the oil phase in an oil vessel;
c) reducing the pressure in the mixing vessel comprising the fat powder to a pressure of less than 0.3 bar, prior to the addition of the oil phase to the mixing vessel;
d) after the pressure in the mixing vessel has been reduced to less than 0.3 bar, adding at least a portion of the oil phase from the oil vessel to the mixing vessel to provide a combined oil phase and fat powder of the above composition; and
e) mixing the combined oil phase and fat powder to form a fat slurry;
wherein the fat powder in step a) is provided to the mixing vessel by feeding the structuring fat in melted form to at least one nozzle, which is connected to the mixing vessel and configured to spray the melted structuring fat through the nozzle into the mixing vessel; and
wherein the structuring fat being sprayed through the nozzle comprises, dissolved in the melted structuring fat, a component gaseous at ambient conditions, wherein said component gaseous at ambient conditions comprises at least 80% carbon dioxide (CO2), by weight of the total amount of said component gaseous at ambient conditions, and is present in an amount at the saturation point for the melted structuring fat; and
wherein the mixing vessel consists of the fat powder during step c).