Patent ID: 8206772

Claim:
A lipid composition useful in formulating food products comprising a mixture of synthetic triglycerides having the formula: wherein the middle group R 2 and the end groups R 1 and R 3 independently comprise fatty acid residues having 2 to 24 carbon atoms; wherein at least about 14 weight percent of the triglycerides in the mixture are structured triglycerides having a first formulation wherein: the middle group R 2 is a short chain fatty acid residue having 2 to 4 carbon atoms inclusive or a medium chain fatty acid residue having 6 to 12 carbon atoms inclusive, one of the end groups R 1 or R 3 is an unsaturated long chain fatty acid residues having 14 to 24 carbon atoms inclusive and at least one double bond therein, and the other of end groups R 1 or R 3 is a short chain fatty acid residue having 2 to 4 carbon atoms inclusive, a medium chain fatty acid residue having 6 to 12 carbon atoms inclusive, or a unsaturated long chain fatty acid residue having 14 to 24 carbon atoms inclusive and at least one C-C double bond therein; wherein about 30 to about 80 weight percent of synthetic triglycerides in the mixture have a second formulation wherein: the R 2 group as a saturated long chain fatty acid residue having 14 to 24 carbon atoms inclusive; one of the R 1 and R 3 groups as a medium chain fatty acid residue having 6 to 12 carbon atoms inclusive; and the other of the R 1 and R 3 groups as a saturated long chain fatty acid residue having 14 to 24 carbon atoms inclusive, wherein the mixture of synthetic triglycerides has a molar ratio of short chain fatty acid residues (S), medium chain fatty acid residues (M), saturated long chain fatty acid residues having 14 to 24 carbon atoms inclusive and no C-C double bonds therein (L), and unsaturated long chain fatty acid residues (U), as defined by the equation: Molar Ratio =( S+M )/( L+U ) of about 0.6 to about 3.8.