US 12,389,923 B2
Shortening with crystalline fat
Serpil Metin, Eden Prairie, MN (US); Paul Raymond Smith, Waterloo (BE); and Fernanda Zaccarelli Davoli, Golden Valley, MN (US)
Assigned to Cargill, Incorporated, Wayzata, MN (US)
Appl. No. 17/599,062
Filed by Cargill, Incorporated, Wayzata, MN (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 27, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/025214
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 28, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/198585, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/825,135, filed on Mar. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0174973 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. A23D 9/05 (2006.01); A21D 2/16 (2006.01); A21D 13/80 (2017.01)
CPC A23D 9/05 (2013.01) [A21D 2/165 (2013.01); A21D 13/80 (2017.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A shortening comprising:
a crystalline fat comprising fat particles; and
liquid fat,
wherein the fat particles are porous and have a spherical shape and a powder density ranging from about 0.04 g/mL to about 0.40 g/mL at room temperature, at least 50% of the fat particles having a particle size ranging from 3 to 60 μm in diameter.