It is well known that lipase catalyzes not only the hydrolysis of fats and oils but also the interesterification and the ester-synthesis. Recently, a number of bioreactor system using the lipase has been investigated in the food processing field. In the field of fats and oils for food purpose, the interesterification process using lipase, especially 1, 3 positional-specific lipase, has been developed as a newly established technology. It has become possible to manufacture the following products by using bioreactor process in industrial scale.
1) Cocoa butter equivalent, hard butters
2) BOB (1, 3-Dibehenoyl-2-oleoylglycerol) fat-powder in a stable crystal form having special functions such as seeding effect and anti-blooming
3) Plastic fats for margarine and shortening processed from palm oils.
In this paper, some applications of bioreactor process under anhydrous condition are intro-duced.