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Cocoa butter equivalent from Kpangnan butter and Pequi oil
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  • Saeed Mirzaee Ghazani,
  • Andrea Madalena Guedes,
  • Rosemar Antoniassi,
  • Alejandro Marangoni
Saeed Mirzaee Ghazani
University of Guelph

Corresponding Author:smirzaee@uoguelph.ca

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Andrea Madalena Guedes
Embrapa Food Agroindustry
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Rosemar Antoniassi
Embrapa Food Agroindustry
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Alejandro Marangoni
University of Guelph
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Abstract

Novel cocoa butter equivalents were designed using dry fractionated Pequi oil and solvent fractionated Kpangnan butter. Static crystallization of binary mixtures of these two fractions into the triclinic form (β2) was achieved after 12 days for all mixtures and after 4 days for the 80:20 w/w and 90:10 w/w fractionated Kpangnan:Pequi oil mixtures. Moreover, after 60 days of storage at 22oC, all binary blends (except 100% fractionated pequi oil and 100% fractionated Kpangnan butter) were crystallized in the most stable triclinic crystal form (β1). Here we also discovered an unusual melting behavior for the fractionaled 30:70 w/w and 20:80 w/w fractionated Kpangnan:Pequi oil mixtures, where after 4 days of static crystallization at room 22oC, these mixtures displayed higher than predicted melting points, 41.89 oC and 33.32 oC, respectively. This suggested a faster kinetics of transformation to the triclinic β2 form for those mixtures. Our results suggest that the 30:70 w/w fractionated Kpangnan:Pequi oil mixture with a melting point of 34oC after 60 days storage at 22oC, a stable triclinic β2 form, and a triglyceride composition of 28% POP, 4.6% POS and 33% SOS displayed solid state characteristics, melting point and crystal structure, of a commercial cocoa butter equivalent.
04 Oct 2021Submitted to Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society
05 Oct 2021Submission Checks Completed
05 Oct 2021Assigned to Editor
25 Oct 2021Reviewer(s) Assigned
24 Mar 2022Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
26 Mar 2022Editorial Decision: Revise Major
19 May 20221st Revision Received
19 May 2022Submission Checks Completed
19 May 2022Assigned to Editor
25 May 2022Reviewer(s) Assigned
17 Jun 2022Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
08 Jul 2022Editorial Decision: Accept
07 Aug 2022Published in Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society. 10.1002/aocs.12630