Composition and process useful for reducing the fat caloric content of foodstuffs containing fats or oils

摘要

The fat caloric content of foodstuffs containing fats or oils can be reduced by adding to said foodstuffs an acidic amylaceous fermented composition resulting from a process wherein a) a slurry of cereal flour and at least one additional non-cereal starch material is first subjected to gelatinization and further homogenized; b) inoculated with an acidifying strain or a mixture of acidifying strains selected from Lactobacillus species, Streptococcus thermophilus and Bifidobacterium species; c) then subjected to a fermentation over a period and at a temperature such as to afford a pH of about 3.5 to 4.6 of the fermented material; and d) finally stabilized. Composition useful therefor and foodstuffs containing same.