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FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
卷 35, 期 10, 页码 983-991出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-9969(02)00164-3
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phytosterol; sterol ester; steryl esters; sitosteryl esters; beta-sitosterol; liquid crystals; mesophases; solidification behaviour
Phytosterol esters are known for their blood cholesterol lowering effect and have consequently been incorporated into vegetable oil table-spread products. In furtherance to gaining knowledge about these materials in a fat-blend environment, the current work describes the phase-diagram based thermal characteristics of a series of beta-sitosterol alkyl-ester homologues prepared as binary mixtures and observed using differential scanning calorimetry. A scanning speed of 10 K min(-1) was chosen and, whilst not representing true equilibrium conditions, was more indicative of the likely dynamic melting or cooling conditions found in a fat-blend product during processing. The thermal behaviours presented reflect therefore this concept. Long-chain saturated esters showed ideal solubility behaviour of immiscible solids. In contrast, the shorter-chain homologues produced complex and dynamic phase behaviours, including some mesophase development. In all cases, supercooling was observed on cooling due to retarded crystallisation, which could equally result in two crystal conformations, depending on the actual composition. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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