Cupuaçu butter

Cupuaçu butter and seeds

The cupuacu butter is a vegetable fat , which from the seeds of Cupuaçu or large-flowered cocoa ( Theobroma grandiflorum ) is obtained. It is light beige, semi-solid at room temperature and has a sour, aromatic odor.

The triglycerides of fat consist mainly of esters with oleic , stearic and arachidic acid , and to a small extent with pamitic and linoleic acid . The melting point is slightly below that of cocoa and shea butter .

Cupuaçu butter is used in the cosmetics and food industries and as a substitute for cocoa butter.

literature

Sabine Krist: Lexicon of vegetable fats and oils. 2nd edition, Springer, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7091-1004-1 , pp. 201-203.

Individual evidence

^ Jorge Latour: Modern Brazil Resources Possibilities. 1949, p. 83, online (PDF; 16.5 MB), from Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico (PPE), accessed on May 7, 2018.

[1] Jorge Latour: Modern Brazil Resources Possibilities. 1949, p. 83, online (PDF; 16.5 MB), from Pesquisa e Planejamento Econômico (PPE), accessed on May 7, 2018.