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Switching to Healthier Oils and Fats Takes Precedence

Many processors are switching to recently developed high-oleic versions of popular and inexpensive oils and shortenings
Vegetable oils still lead the field over animal-based fats when it comes to new food oil developments. Perceived as healthier in that they contain more unsaturated fatty acids, they have faced challenges when it comes to cooking or baking, as they are not normally robust at the high temperatures needed in heat processing.
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New Varieties of Fats and Oils Promise to Solve Product Development Challenges, Boost Nutrition

Optimizing texture and flavor in plant-based meat alternatives is driving innovation in product development
The explosion of plant-based meat and dairy analogs has created a paradigm shift in the ways food product developers are considering fats and oils. There’s plenty of innovation around plant-based meat alternatives, especially as they expand beyond burgers, sausages, and poultry into mimics of bacon, pork, and even such highly specific items as turkey burgers.
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American Egg Board: Clean Label Emulsification

Egg yolks, nature’s emulsifier, play critical, clean label role in formulation
Sauces, dressings, and condiments, such as mayonnaise, benefit in obvious ways from the emulsifying properties of the egg yolk. While it is easy to observe the importance of a stable emulsion in mayonnaise or a dressing where one can witness the battle between immiscible liquids (typically water and fat) as they strive to separate from each other, emulsifiers play an important although less obvious role in other formulations.
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Q&A with David Bezenyei, Columbus Vegetable Oils

Discussing condiment, sauce and dressing trends with a food executive
Prepared Foods talks dips, sauces and condiment trends with David Bezenyei, sales manager, Columbus Vegetable Oils. Based in Des Plaines, Ill., Columbus Vegetable Oils produces a wide range of sauces, dressings, condiments and oils for private label and contract manufacturing customers. Likewise, it supplies a Butcher Boy sauce line to foodservice operators.
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