Fat-finding Mission. (cover story)

The article reports on innovations in oils and fats that were developed by U.S. suppliers to provide the functionality and benefits required by formulators in a move toward reduced-trans/no-trans solutions. They are testing blends of liquid oils and fully saturated oils with no trans isomers as substitutes for trans-containing fats. Oil products have been commercialized using enzymatically interesterified domestic blends of soybean oil and hydrogenated soybean oil as well as 95% palm kernel oil produced using immobilized lipase technology.