Abstract: This invention relates to a process for continuous or churned manufacturing of low calorie butter or a low calorie butter substitute and/or a mixture thereof.The low calorie butter and the low calorie butter substitutes, or mixtures thereof, are made with new equipment or modified equipment used in the manufacture of conventional butter and butter substitutes.

Abstract: A fat-reduced, edible, water-in-oil spread is produced by heating a fat which is normally solid at room temperature so as to melt a substantial proportion of less thermally stable crystals in the fat; homogeneously admixing sufficient water to the heated fat to reduce the proportion of fat in the resulting admixture; cooling the admixture to crystallize a substantial proportion of the uncrystallized fat and produce a pumpable plastic mass; and subjecting the pumpable plastic mass to cutting and mixing in a turbine-like comminuting device while limiting the temperature rise of the plastic mass.