The present invention relates to a process for forming a stabilized fat blend. Further aspects of the invention are a composition comprising a fat blend and micronized antioxidant-containing vegetable material. The invention also provides for the use of micronized antioxidant-containing vegetable material to protect a fat blend from oxidation, for example a fat blend with a low level of saturated fat.

The present invention relates to a process for forming a stabilized fat blend. Further aspects of the invention are a composition comprising a fat blend and micronized antioxidant-containing vegetable material. The invention also provides for the use of micronized antioxidant-containing vegetable material to protect a fat blend from oxidation, for example a fat blend with a low level of saturated fat.

Efficient acquisition of information to adjust a cooking environment for providing a fried food with good taste is realized by determining the cooking environment in advance based on a state of edible oil. A determination device for determining a cooking environment of an edible oil, comprising: an imaging section configured to acquire an image in which the edible oil is captured; a first input section configured to input first information which is information on a fried food to be fed into the edible oil and cooked; a first identification section configured to analyze the image and identify a state of the edible oil; and a second identification section configured to identify the cooking environment in which the fried food is to be cooked based on the first information and the state.

In the present invention, any unpleasant taste in foods cooked using a chlorophyll-containing oil and fat composition is reduced. The edible oil and fat composition comprises: (A) a chlorophyll including one or more selected from the group consisting of chlorophyll a, pheophytin a, and pyropheophytin a; (B) a heated/processed oil and fat including one or more oils selected from the group consisting of (b1) a first heated oil obtained by heat-treating an unrefined raw oil including one or more oils selected from the group consisting of a pressed oil from an oil and fat material and an extracted oil from the oil and fat material, or an oil and fat that has passed through one or more steps selected from the group consisting of a degumming step, a deacidification step, and a decolorization step in a step for refining the unrefined raw oil, (b2) a roasted oil obtained by pressing or extracting the oil and fat material, which has been roasted, and (b3) a second heated oil obtained by heat-treating an oil and fat containing the oil and fat material and/or a processed product thereof; and (C) an edible oil and fat.

In the present invention, any unpleasant taste in foods cooked using a chlorophyll-containing oil and fat composition is reduced. The edible oil and fat composition comprises: (A) a chlorophyll including one or more selected from the group consisting of chlorophyll a, pheophytin a, and pyropheophytin a; (B) a heated/processed oil and fat including one or more oils selected from the group consisting of (b1) a first heated oil obtained by heat-treating an unrefined raw oil including one or more oils selected from the group consisting of a pressed oil from an oil and fat material and an extracted oil from the oil and fat material, or an oil and fat that has passed through one or more steps selected from the group consisting of a degumming step, a deacidification step, and a decolorization step in a step for refining the unrefined raw oil, (b2) a roasted oil obtained by pressing or extracting the oil and fat material, which has been roasted, and (b3) a second heated oil obtained by heat-treating an oil and fat containing the oil and fat material and/or a processed product thereof; and (C) an edible oil and fat.

Compositions comprising: (i) from 25% to 90% by weight of an edible oil; (ii) one or more sugar alcohols; and (iii) one or more reducing sugars; wherein the oil comprises at least 20% by weight of one or more carboxylic acids containing at least 18 carbon atoms and at least 2 carbon-carbon double bonds, or an ester thereof, and the weight ratio of (ii) to (iii) is from 2:1 to 1:40, exhibit good stability and other advantages and can be used in food products.

Compositions comprising: (i) from 25% to 90% by weight of an edible oil; (ii) one or more sugar alcohols; and (iii) one or more reducing sugars; wherein the oil comprises at least 20% by weight of one or more carboxylic acids containing at least 18 carbon atoms and at least 2 carbon-carbon double bonds, or an ester thereof, and the weight ratio of (ii) to (iii) is from 2:1 to 1:40, exhibit good stability and other advantages and can be used in food products.

Compositions including a vegetable- or animal-derived oil, such as fatty acid alkyl esters, are stabilized against oxidation using an oxygenated aminophenol antioxidant. The aminophenol includes one or two carbon-containing group(s) including a hydroxyl group and/or ether group separated from the N atom by one or more carbon atoms. The oxygenated aminophenol antioxidants effective at controlling oxidation at moderate and even low amounts, useful in a variety of different oil and methyl ester fatty acid preparations, and were effective at elevated temperatures, and performed significantly better than convention antioxidants.

Compositions including a vegetable- or animal-derived oil, such as fatty acid alkyl esters, are stabilized against oxidation using an oxygenated aminophenol antioxidant. The aminophenol includes one or two carbon-containing group(s) including a hydroxyl group and/or ether group separated from the N atom by one or more carbon atoms. The oxygenated aminophenol antioxidants effective at controlling oxidation at moderate and even low amounts, useful in a variety of different oil and methyl ester fatty acid preparations, and were effective at elevated temperatures, and performed significantly better than convention antioxidants.

A method for preserving cooking oil comprises contacting the oil with oil-permeable cementious material in the form of either stand-alone blocks, pellets, granules, or balls and which has been hydraulically hardened from a paste comprising (a) >50 wt % of (i) white OPC clinker, (ii) white OPC or (iii) a mixture of white OPC clinker and white OPC, and (b) optionally further ingredients selected from silica, titania, lime, calcium sulphate, hydrated alumina, natural feldspars, diatomaceous earth, Na and Ca forms of natural and synthetic zeolites, clays, pillared clays, activated clays/earths, silicate minerals selected from calcium silicate, magnesium silicate, aluminum silicate, agalmatolite, amphiboles, attapulgite, granite porphyry, kaolinite, porphyry, rhyolite, talc and wollastonite, wherein the porosity of the cementious material is 30-55%. The oil-permeable cementious material has during manufacture been subjected to prolonged drying at elevated temperatures so as to reduce the amount of foaming occurring in the oil during treatment with the said cementious material.