POWDER CONTAINING LECITHIN AND ITS PRODUCTION

• Main Authors: HOSHINO HIROAKI, MATSUTANI NOBUYUKI, OWADA HIROHISA, MURAKAMI TAKESHI, IKEMORI SHUNSUKE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.04.1997
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: BAKERY PRODUCTS; BAKING; EDIBLE DOUGHS; EDIBLE OILS OR FATS, e.g. MARGARINES, SHORTENINGS, COOKINGOILS; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; PHOSPHATIDE COMPOSITIONS FOR FOODSTUFFS; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PRESERVATION THEREOF; PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS FOR FOODSTUFFS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TREATMENT, e.g. PRESERVATION, OF FLOUR OR DOUGH, e.g. BYADDITION OF MATERIALS; WORKING-UP PROTEINS FOR FOODSTUFFS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To produce a powder, containing lecithin, capable of readily performing handling and blending with a food or a feed, enabling the addition of a large amount of the lecithin, improving the texture and the keeping quality and reducing the scorching and mold releasability in the food and suitable as a material for the food and feed excellent in the keeping quality by adsorbing the hardly handleable lecithins which are a liquid or a pasty at normal temperatures and have high tackiness and further high hygroscopicity on an excipient and producing the powder having a film formed on the outside thereof so as to prevent the hygroscopicity. SOLUTION: This powder containing lecithin is obtained by mixing at least one excipient selected from a grain flour, a seed powder, a potato powder, starch, an oil cake, a rice bran, food manufacture's by-products, an animal refuse and a mineral powder with lecithins obtained from an animal and a plant, adsorbing the resultant mixture on an excipient, then mixing or bringing the prepared material into contact with an aqueous solution or an aqueous dispersion of a water-soluble high-molecular material, subsequently drying the prepared substance and thereby forming a film of the water-soluble polymeric material on the outside thereof.