Peoria / IL. (ars) Delicious new cakes and frostings may someday contain less fat and fewer calories, thanks to work by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists such as Mukti Singh. She is based at the ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR) in Peoria, Illinois (USA). ARS is the principal intramural scientific research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In experiments at her Peoria laboratory, Singh is formulating low-fat cake mixes and frostings with «Fantesk» microdroplets of trans-fat-free cooking oil, encapsulated in cornstarch or wheat flour. Fantesk was developed in the 1990s by NCAUR chemists George Fanta and the late Kenneth Eskins. Singh´s experiments have shown that, when making a cake with a mix that contains Fantesk, cooking oil does not have to be added. And, the mixes containing Fantesk produce low-fat cakes that have better texture and a higher volume. What´s more, the lower-fat frostings that Singh and Peoria chemical engineer Jeffrey Byars are creating with Fantesk have the smooth texture and spreadability of buttercream favorites, yet contain up to 50 percent less fat (eurekalert).
Info: Read more about this research in the March 2010 issue of Agricultural Research magazine, available online at https://www.ars.usda.gov.
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