A method for the production of a acids fermented starch-containing composition and to the calories content reduction of fat - or oil-containing food

摘要

The fat caloric content of foodstuffs containing fats or oils can be reduced by adding to said foodstuffs an acidic amylaceous fermented composition resulting from a process wherein a) a slurry of cereal flour and at least one additional non-cereal starch material is first subjected to gelatinization and further homogenized; b) inoculated with an acidifying strain or a mixture of acidifying strains selected from Lactobacillus species, Streptococcus thermophilus and Bifidobacterium species; c) then subjected to a fermentation over a period and at a temperature such as to afford a pH of about 3.5 to 4.6 of the fermented material; and d) finally stabilized. Composition useful therefor and foodstuffs containing same.