Although the crystallization characteristics differed, the melting of bulk and emulsified HPKO occurred over the same tempera ture range m (onset) 17 °C and Tm (endset) 40 °C). Therefore (T the hysteresis between Tc (onset 8 °C, endset -2 C) and Tm (onset 17 °C, endset 40 °C) of emulsified HPKO could be used to produce 2 sets of systems with the same composition but different physical states of the dispersed lipid phases. Systems with dis- persed SLP were produced by cooling the freshly prepared system to below the onset temperature of crystallization (approximately 2 °C) and then holding at 15 C approximate 2 degrees below Tm onset). On the other hand, dispersed LLP were prepared with direct cooling to 15 °C approximate 7 °C above To c(onset) The physical state of the particles was verified by DSC. Freshly prepared emulsions in the DSC pans were thermally treated ac cording to the protocol described in Figure 1, and the presence of SLP or LLP was investigated with a single cooling or a heat- ing scan started from 15 oC Figure 4). As expected, LLP systems did not show endothermic melting in the heating step, whereas a peak of crystallization appeared at approximately 4 °C. SLP melted upon heating as the presence of a clear endotherm testi- fied, and remained unchanged during cooling showing that the lipid was completely crystallized. Therefore, based on this exper imental evidence, we confirmed that dispersed HPKO was either g in a completely solid state or in a completely liquid state when the systems were incubated at 15 C.