Reduced calorie fat compositions which contain combinations of substantially non-absorbable, substantially nondigestible polyol polyesters and certain reduced calorie triglycerides that function as anti-anal leakage agents and provide textural/taste benefits are disclosed. These reduced calorie fat compositions are useful in a variety of food applications, including frying oils for salted snacks, chocolate-flavored candy bars and cooking/salad oils.

An auxiliary fat container near a deep fat fryer lowers to a convenient height for filling with an entire replenishment package of solidified cooking fat. A heater within the auxiliary container melts and elevates the temperature of the replenishment fat to approximately cooking temperature. A fat level sensor within the deep fat fryer meters the addition of preheated replenishment fat.

The invention provides margarine fat formulations having a high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids from which margarines can be prepared capable of wrapper- or tub-packaging. The hard fat component of the fat is randomized and is free from hydrogenated fats. It may be obtained by interesterifying coconut and palm fats with for example palm stearine, or by randomizing the glycerides of a corresponding mixture of the fatty acids.

A method and apparatus for measuring fat thickness in a target body part are provided. The apparatus includes a light emitter emitting near infrared rays, an inner reflector having a reflecting plane outside to reflect the near infrared rays emitted by the light emitter, an outer reflector surrounding the inner reflector and having a reflecting plane inside to reflect the near infrared rays emitted by the light emitter, a light receiver receiving light reflected from the target body part in resp...

A method for controlling body fat in a human or nonhuman animal includes the step of reducing lipoxygenase activity in an animal. Lipoxygenase activity can be reduced by reducing the enzyme activity or by lowering the enzyme level. Reduced lipoxygenase activity correlates with reduced cell-associated LPL activity and with reduced cellular triacylglyceride level.

Disclosed is a device for measuring body fat of an animal. Embodiments include an input unit for entering individual information of the animal, a bioelectric impedance input unit for measuring the bioelectric impedance of the animal, and a morphological measurement value input unit for entering morphological measurement values for the girth and length of the body of the animal. An impedance-based calculation unit calculates a body fat rate based on the bioelectric impedance, and a morphological ...

A method for producing a fat by distillation and purification while preventing isomerization. The distillation and purification is conducted under an acidic condition to prevent isomerization.

There is provided an oil or fat composition composed chiefly of triglycerides wherein the amount of medium-chain fatty acids in all the fatty acids composing the oil or fat composition is 5 to 23% by mass and the amount of triglycerides having two medium-chain fatty acid residues in the molecule in all the triglycerides is 1 to 20% by mass.The oil or fat composition is low in body fat accumulation, has equal cooking properties with conventional edible oils and has good flavor and high safety.

A body fat measuring device mainly including a display screen and several control keys disposed on a housing body, one electrode on a frontage of the housing body and two electrodes on a bottom side of the housing body; to use the mentioned structure, user's thumbs press on the electrodes on the frontage of the housing body while the index fingers and the middle fingers press on the bottom side of the housing body to enable a current to transmit into the human body through the electrodes then fl...

A substantially fat impervious coating (KIT number from about 6 and about 16) coating made from an aqueous solution of a hydroxypropyl high amylose pea starch.