Process for making low calorie triglycerides having long and short fatty acid chains

摘要

The specification discloses a process for making low calorie triglycerides. The process involves interesterifying short triglycerides having C2 to C10 fatty acid chains and long triglycerides having C16 to C24 fatty acid chains in the presence of a catalyst and without a solvent to produce low calorie triglycerides as an interesterification product of the long and short triglycerides comprising individual triglycerides wherein a substantial is portion of the low calorie triglycerides have two long C16 to C24 fatty acid chains and one short C2 to C10 fatty acid chain having at least one long C16 to C24 fatty acid chain and at least one short C2 to C10 fatty acid chain. The process enables continuous production of low calorie triglycerides with recycle of catalyst and unreacted starting materials for an economical mode of operation with improved product yield and quality.