Patent ID: 7700146

Claim:
A process for the production of a fat composition, suitable for use as a confectionery fat, characterised in that a starting fat composition which contains between 20 and 95 wt. % of S 2 U less than 75 wt. % of SU 2 +U 3 less than 20 wt. % of S 3 between 1 and 12 wt. % of diglycerides, in which the glyceride contents are expressed as wt. % with respect to the total amount of di- and triglycerides, in which S means a saturated fatty acid with a hydrocarbon chain length of 14-24 carbon atoms, U means unsaturated fatty acid with a hydrocarbon chain length of 14-24 carbon atoms, which starting fat composition further contains between 10 and 100 wt. % of at least one interesterified fat, the interesterified fat containing less than 15 wt. % of C-12 with respect to the total amount of interesterified fat, said process comprising subjecting said starting fat to a catalytic hydrogenation so as to obtain a first fat and then incorporating the first fat into a fat composition.