OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIFIER

摘要

The present invention relates to protein extracts, concentrates and isolates, especially those obtainable from plant sources that are useful in the manufacture of foods and food products, especially as emulsifiers, creaming agents and the like. In particular, the present invention provides a composition useful as an emulsifier for stabilising an oil-in-water emulsion to form a food product, the composition including lupin proteins in an amount of about 70 to 98 % by dry weight of the composition, wherein about 85 to 95% of the lupin proteins have a molecular weight greater than 20 kDa. The present invention also relates to processes for the production of this composition.