A cooking aid includes a sheet of flexible burn resistant material and a composition disposed on one face of the sheet. The composition contains a mixture of vegetable or animal oil with a melting point below 20 C., vegetable or animal fat with a melting point above 20 C., and one or more herbs, spices and flavour enhancers.

Subject-matter of the invention are processes for preparing fatty acid vinyl ester copolymers by radically initiated polymerization of a) one or more vinyl esters of carboxylic acids having 16 to 22 carbon atoms and b) one or more vinyl esters of carboxylic acids having 2 to 15 carbon atoms, with one or more vinyl esters a) and one or more vinyl esters b) being metered in during the polymerization, characterized in that during the polymerization either the metering rate of vinyl ester a) or the metering rate of vinyl ester b) is reduced and the metering rate of the other of the two vinyl esters, a) or b), is increased.

A cooking aid comprising a sheet of flexible burn resistant material and a composition disposed on one face of the sheet, the composition comprising a mixture of vegetable or animal oil with a melting point below 20 C., vegetable or animal fat with a melting point above 20 C., and one or more herbs, spices and flavor enhancers.

The present invention relates to a material in the form of solid particles with a diameter varying from 1 m to 1 cm which are composed of a continuous shell E.sub.Ext comprising at least one silicon oxide, said shell E.sub.Ext imprisoning at least one fatty phase, said material being characterized in that said fatty phase is solid at the storage temperature of said material and predominantly comprises a crystallizable oil having a melting point (T.sub.M) of less than 100 C. and in that said fatty phase includes at least one lipophilic substance of interest S.sub.L and at least one inclusion comprising a continuous shell E.sub.Int comprising at least one silicon oxide, said shell E.sub.Int imprisoning an aqueous phase comprising at least one hydrophilic substance of interest S.sub.H. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of said material, to its use for the thermostimulated delivery of active substances, and also to the compositions including it.

An apparatus includes a food product, at least one ingestible device associated with the food product to communicate information and at least one coating material surrounding the at least one ingestible device is disclosed. The ingestible device is associated with an ingestible medication to be ingested in conjunction with the food product. The coating is configured to release the at least one ingestible device upon the occurrence of an event.