Article
Interesterified fats: What are they and why are they used? A briefing report from the Roundtable on Interesterified Fats in Foods
2019-12-01
Abstract excerpt
Interesterification rearranges the position of fatty acids within triacylglycerols, the main component of dietary fat, altering physical properties such as the melting point and providing suitable functionality for use in a range of food applications. Interesterified (IE) fats are one of a number of alternatives which have been adopted to reformulate products to remove fats containing trans fatty acids generated d...
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- Literature Corpus work
- de80fbdb-7da5-5c73-8309-f772ac35242b
- DOI
- 10.1111/nbu.12397
