The Handbook makes an essential reading for all students and teachers professionals researchers and industrialists company executives and managers dealing with fats and oils. It aims to be an effective management tool and a handy aid for managing the projects. It is expected to serve as a valuable source of information for all associated with the fat and oil technology chemical engineering food processing and foodservice industries. The Handbook contains valuable and necessary information on preparation properties applications and analysis of various oils and fats. Oils and fats constitute a major class of food products comprising essential nutrients of the human diet serving as concentrated source of energy. Processed foods such as dairy products margarine snacks prefried poultry peanut butter coffee whiteners contain significant quantities of oils and fats.