PURPOSE Interesterification of palm stearin and palm kernal (PSt/PK) is widely used by the food industry to create fats with desirable functional characteristics for applications in spreads and bakery products, negating the need for trans fatty acids. Previous studies have reported reduced postprandial lipaemia, an independent risk factor for CVD, following interesterified (IE) palmitic and ste...

After Burkina Faso's independence, shea butter continues to be the key staple edible oil used by Burkinabe households although alternatives are now being placed in local markets. Shea ( Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn.) is primarily managed as a food tree crop for African consumers but has been promoted wild and abundant which gives women cash empowerment. New international demand Cocoa Butter...

Ion-induced desorption is a serious luminosity limitation for high current and low charge state heavy ion accelerators [1]. In order to find low desorbing materials for the loss regions of SIS18 a dedicated experimental program was started measuring desorption yields of different materials, which are in-situ well characterized using UHV Elastic Recoil Detection Analysis (ERDA). Two targets, wit...