Cocoa butter is a high-value fat, used in chocolate manufacture. It owes itsparticular melting point and crystal structure (vital to its use) to a mixture ofoleyl stearyl palmityl (POS) and oleyl distearyl (SOS) glycerol.It has been known for many years that a mixture of stearin and palm-oil midfraction had the same fatty acid composition as cocoa butter, but did not givequite the same results because the required mixed esters were not present. Aprocess that uses sodium alkoxides as catalysts has been in use for some years,and a considerable tonnage of ' cocoa butter substitute ' is made. Demand hasrecently increased substantially – partly as a result of changes in EECregulations. At the same time, there has been increasing disquiet fromconsumers about the use of ' chemicals ' and ' additives '. This is to some extentreflected in the attitudes of regulators, and in a situation where there may bepolitical pressures to prevent the introduction of new chemically processedingredients, enzymes take on an attractive image that may outweigh the economicdisadvantage.Both Unilever (1980) and Fuji Oil (1981) felt sufficiently interested to filepatents on the use of enzymes for interesterification, although both havebeen actively engaged in chemical interesterification. In addition, there mayactually be a real advantage in the use of enzymes. This is because it is possible1:3+s + p + s+ + + + e + + E+ e +/:"+ E + p + o + s+ e+ & + & + & + p + sFigure 9.3 The outcome of interesterification between dipalmityloleylglycerol and either stearic acid or tristearin,by using either a 1-3 specific lipase or random chemical or enzymatic interesterification. The complexity of themixture is far less when specific enzymes are used. Because ofacyl group migration in practice, the difference is not so
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