PMID- 34945652 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20211229 IS - 2304-8158 (Print) IS - 2304-8158 (Electronic) IS - 2304-8158 (Linking) VI - 10 IP - 12 DP - 2021 Dec 14 TI - Evaluation of the Miscibility of Novel Cocoa Butter Equivalents by Raman Mapping and Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares. LID - 10.3390/foods10123101 [doi] LID - 3101 AB - Cocoa butter (CB) is an ingredient traditionally used in the manufacturing of chocolates, but its availability is decreasing due to its scarcity and high cost. For this reason, other vegetable oils, known as cocoa butter equivalents (CBE), are used to replace CB partially or wholly. In the present work, two Peruvian vegetable oils, coconut oil (CNO) and sacha inchi oil (SIO), are proposed as novel CBEs. Confocal Raman microscopy (CRM) was used for the chemical differentiation and polymorphism of these oils with CB based on their Raman spectra. To analyze their miscibility, two types of blends were prepared: CB with CNO, and CB with SIO. Both were prepared at 5 different concentrations (5%, 15%, 25%, 35%, and 45%). Raman mapping was used to obtain the chemical maps of the blends and analyze their miscibility through distribution maps, histograms and relative standard deviation (RSD). These values were obtained with multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares. The results show that both vegetable oils are miscible with CB at high concentrations: 45% for CNO and 35% for SIO. At low concentrations, their miscibility decreases. This shows that it is possible to consider these vegetable oils as novel CBEs in the manufacturing of chocolates. FAU - Castro-Alayo, Efrain M AU - Castro-Alayo EM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-4322-8980 AD - Facultad de Ingenieria y Ciencias Agrarias, Instituto de Investigacion, Innovacion y Desarrollo para el Sector Agrario y Agroindustrial de la Region Amazonas (IIDAA), Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodriguez de Mendoza de Amazonas, Calle Higos Urco 342-350-356, Chachapoyas 01001, Peru. AD - Seccion de Ingenieria Industrial, Departamento de Ingenieria, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel 15088, Peru. AD - Programa de Doctorado en Ingenieria, Departamento de Ingenieria, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel 15088, Peru. FAU - Torrejon-Valqui, Llisela AU - Torrejon-Valqui L AD - Facultad de Ingenieria y Ciencias Agrarias, Instituto de Investigacion, Innovacion y Desarrollo para el Sector Agrario y Agroindustrial de la Region Amazonas (IIDAA), Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodriguez de Mendoza de Amazonas, Calle Higos Urco 342-350-356, Chachapoyas 01001, Peru. FAU - Cayo-Colca, Ilse S AU - Cayo-Colca IS AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6518-0979 AD - Facultad de Ingenieria Zootecnista, Agronegocios y Biotecnologia, Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodriguez de Mendoza de Amazonas, Calle Higos Urco 342-350-356, Chachapoyas 01001, Peru. FAU - Cardenas-Toro, Fiorella P AU - Cardenas-Toro FP AD - Seccion de Ingenieria Industrial, Departamento de Ingenieria, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel 15088, Peru. AD - Programa de Doctorado en Ingenieria, Departamento de Ingenieria, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel 15088, Peru. LA - eng GR - Contrato N degrees 012-2018-Fondecyt/BM/Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion Tecnologica/ GR - Contrato N degrees 012-2018-Fondecyt/BM/World Bank Group/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20211214 PL - Switzerland TA - Foods JT - Foods (Basel, Switzerland) JID - 101670569 PMC - PMC8700800 OTO - NOTNLM OT - chocolate OT - cocoa butter OT - coconut oil OT - confocal raman microscopy OT - multivariate curve resolution-alternating least squares OT - raman mapping OT - sacha inchi oil COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2021/12/25 06:00 MHDA- 2021/12/25 06:01 PMCR- 2021/12/14 CRDT- 2021/12/24 01:09 PHST- 2021/11/10 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/12/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/12/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/12/24 01:09 [entrez] PHST- 2021/12/25 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/12/25 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2021/12/14 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - foods10123101 [pii] AID - foods-10-03101 [pii] AID - 10.3390/foods10123101 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Foods. 2021 Dec 14;10(12):3101. doi: 10.3390/foods10123101.