Definition: Hydrogenation

Category: EU legislation

Catalytic process aimed at saturating double bonds of oils/fats/fatty acids, carried out at high temperature under hydrogen pressure, in order to obtain partially of or fully saturated triglycerides/fatty acids, or aimed at obtaining polyols by reduction of carbonyl groups of carbohydrates to hydroxyl groups http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2013:029:SOM:EN:HTML