Patent ID: 8802834

Claim:
A composition comprising a blend of sucrose polyesters, wherein each sucrose polyester comprises a sucrose moiety and a plurality of fatty acid ester moieties, wherein: (a) from about 90% to about 100% by weight of the sucrose polyesters in the blend are selected from a group consisting of octa-, hepta-, and hexa-sucrose polyesters; and (b) from about 50% to about 75%, by weight, of the plural fatty acid ester moieties of the sucrose polyesters in the blend are palmitic fatty acid ester moieties, with the balance of the fatty acid ester moieties of the sucrose polyesters in the blend comprising a carbon chain independently of C 12 -C 14 or C 18 -C 22 carbon chains; or (c) from about 50% to about 90% by weight of the plural fatty acid ester moieties of the sucrose polyesters in the blend comprise a C 16 carbon chain, with the balance of the fatty acid ester moieties of the sucrose polyesters in the blend comprising a carbon chain independently of C 12 -C 14 or C 18 -C 22 carbon chains.