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Abstract
1,3-diunsaturated-2-palmitoyl-glycerol (UPU structured lipids) demonstrate considerable potential as substitutes for human milk fat, effectively meeting the nutritional and developmental requirements of infants. This review outlines the development of human milk fat substitutes and examines how lipase synthesis strategies influence the production of UPU structured lipids. The review also analyzes the functional properties of these lipids in relation to types of lipases, acyl acceptors, and acyl donors. Finally, building on the well-established structure–function relationships of these lipids, we offer insights into future research and development directions, with a focus on 1,3-diunsaturated-2-saturated triglyceride (USU structured lipids) and customizing personalized UPU structured lipids products.
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The Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society (JAOCS) is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes significant original scientific research and technological advances on fats, oils, oilseed proteins, and related materials through original research articles, invited reviews, short communications, and letters to the editor. We seek to publish reports that will significantly advance scientific understanding through hypothesis driven research, innovations, and important new information pertaining to analysis, properties, processing, products, and applications of these food and industrial resources. Breakthroughs in food science and technology, biotechnology (including genomics, biomechanisms, biocatalysis and bioprocessing), and industrial products and applications are particularly appropriate.
JAOCS also considers reports on the lipid composition of new, unique, and traditional sources of lipids that definitively address a research hypothesis and advances scientific understanding. However, the genus and species of the source must be verified by appropriate means of classification. In addition, the GPS location of the harvested materials and seed or vegetative samples should be deposited in an accredited germplasm repository. Compositional data suitable for Original Research Articles must embody replicated estimate of tissue constituents, such as oil, protein, carbohydrate, fatty acid, phospholipid, tocopherol, sterol, and carotenoid compositions. Other components unique to the specific plant or animal source may be reported. Furthermore, lipid composition papers should incorporate elements of yeartoyear, environmental, and/ or cultivar variations through use of appropriate statistical analyses.