Freezable low-calorie spoonable dressings and method for their production

Reference Number: N 04-04

Inventors: Sekula, Bernard Charles; Golden, Rosemary Antoinette

Owner: NISTAC

USPTO Link: 6544578

Invention Summary

A reduced calorie spoonable dressing that exhibits freeze-thaw stability is disclosed. This dressing is made by replacing some or all of the blending salad oil with a fatty acid-esterified propoxylated glycerin composition having from about 3 to about 16 oxypropylene units per unit of glycerin and a ratio of total fatty acid carbon number to degree of fatty acid unsaturation of less than about 120 or a ratio of total fatty acid carbon number to propoxylation number of less than about 6.