Since several years there has been a demand for food products free of palm oil, noticeable in the Western European market. Alternatives based on liquid oils, fully hydrogenated fats, and exotic fats like shea and sal etc., have been developed by the research groups of several specialty oils and fats suppliers. This article describes the advantages and disadvantages of those products and compare...

The study reports the changes in fatty acid and sterol composition; as well volatile 3-MCPD ester content of two commercial vegetable oils at different steps refining process. Canola corn were collected from neutralization, bleaching, winterization deodorization stages a chemical plant oil samples evaluated for acid, sterol, compounds contents. Results have shown that total contents decreased t...

The study aims to investigate the effect of microwave frying power and time on 3-MCPD glycidyl ester contents oils absorbed by fried potatoes. For this purpose, potato sticks were with three different refined vegetable (canola, corn, sunflower) at two settings (350 W, 700 W) for periods (3 5 minutes). oil samples evaluated their content using alkali transesterification DGF Standard Method C-VI ...