Excellent summary of saturated, unsaturated, and t...

The article below appeared in the Yemen Times and was written by Salma Ismail. The original article can be found at: http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1266&p=health&a=2. The author provides an excellent well organized summary for the layman on saturated fats, and unsaturated. 　 Khalid stands at the Suq Al-Milh in the Old City of Sana’a taking in the smells of fried samboosa, falafel, French fries,...

Shortening substitutes and novel strategies for na...

Alejandro G. Marangoni Department of Food Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G2W1, Canada Increasing public concerns over excessive saturated and trans fat intake from manufactured food products has lead to the search for alternative strategies to structure liquid oils into semisolid fats without addition of large amounts of unhealthy trans and saturated fats. Surfactant-like small molecules have been shown...

Saturated fat discussion at AOCS 2009...

Some highlighted points from the Saturated fats and Health: Fats and Feelings ‘hot topic symposia’ held at the AOCS conference 2009 in Orlando FL: -          Classifying saturated fatty acids as one group may be an oversimplification.  Each saturated fatty acid is digested differently by the human body depending on its carbon chain length, but in foods it would be difficult to separate these fatty...

Soybean oil – a balance of dietary fats...

Soybean oil is the most abundant and least expensive vegetable oil produced in the Americas. Soybeans are grown and processed into oil in both North and South America supporting local farmers and the local agri-food industry. New varieties of soybean oil including low linolenic oil, and low linolenic – high oleic oil are quickly coming of stream to meet the demand of the food industry that requires healty fats...

What is the difference between a FAT and an OIL...

Fats and oils both fall into the general category of molecules referred to as “lipids”. Lipids also include other molecules including waxes, sterols, cholesterol, monoglycerides, diglycerides, and phospholipids. Lipids occur naturally in plants and animals.  Edible fats and oils such as canola oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, palm fat, and animal fats contain triglycerides. Soybean oil at room temperature A...

Low Moisture Cookie Study...

Report published 29 April, 2009 CONTENTS Introduction and Objectives Materials and Methods Cookie Formulations Method of mixing palm oil control cookies Method of mixing Coasun prototype cookies Nutritional Comparison Cookie cutter Specifications Cookie specifications Spread/ Height Measurements Moisture Analysis Texture Analysis Summary and Conclusions Introduction and Objectives The objective of this project is to...