Production of sucrose fatty acid polyester

摘要

Sucrose fatty acid polyesters are produced by heating a molten mixture of sucrose, fatty acid lower alkyl ester, transesterification catalyst, fatty acid alkali metal soap and/or sucrose fatty acid ester. Sucrose fatty acid polyesters are purified by acidifying the reaction product and subjecting the acidified reaction product to molecular distillation whereby the sucrose fatty acid polyesters are recovered as the residue.