Abstract:
Creamers for whitening food products are provided. The creamers can have long-term stability, high whitening capacity and a pleasant mouth feel. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides a natural dairy creamer including a sugar, a fat, a protein having a globular protein denaturation degree between about 75% and about 98%, and a viscosity ranging between about 10 cP and about 70 cP when measured at a temperature of 4 °C and a shear rate of 75 s -1 .
Abstract:
Oxidative stable oils and blends and liquid creamers containing same are provided. Methods for making liquid creamers are also provided. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides an oil blend having a final concentration of saturated fatty acids that is no more than 65% by weight of the total oil blend and a concentration of trans fatty acids that is no more than 1% by weight of the total oil blend. The oil blend may include, for example, coconut oil, palm oil, palm oil fractions and high oleic sunflower oil, alone or in combinations thereof. The oil blends may be used in liquid creamers and result in oxidative and emulsion stability for the required shelf life of the liquid creamers.