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Natural Waxes as Oil Structurants

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Alternative Routes to Oil Structuring

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Wax-based oleogels display very interesting and complex rheological behavior; the physical gels of liquid oils created using natural waxes can be assumed to have characteristics of both the flocculated suspensions and semi-dilute polymer solutions. In this chapter, a comparative evaluation of six different natural waxes (with differing melting ranges) is described mainly with respect to their network forming properties at their respective minimum gelling concentrations to give the readers a comprehensive understanding of wax-based oleogels.

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  1. Laboratory of Food Technology and Engineering, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Vandemoortele Centre for Lipid Science and Technology, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

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Patel, A.R. (2015). Natural Waxes as Oil Structurants. In: Alternative Routes to Oil Structuring. SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19138-6_2

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