Reversible gel formation
AssigneeCooperatieve Verkoop-en Productievereniging van Aardappelmeel en Derivaten AVEBE B.A.
InventorsPieter Lykle Buwalda, Heine Roelf Meina, Jakob Roelf Woltjes
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Abstract
The invention relates to a gelling agent for production of a reversible gel. The gelling agent is a degraded root or tuber starch comprising at least 95 wt. % of amnylopectin, based on dry substance of the starch. The getting agent according to the invention is particularly suitable for use in food products.
Claims14
Reversible gelling agent in the form of a degraded root or tuber starch, which starch comprises at least 95 wt. % of amylopectin, based on dry substance of the starch.
Reversible gelling agent according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the starch is degraded by acidic hydrolysis, enzymatic hydrolysis, oxidation, dextrinization or a combination thereof.
Reversible gelling agent according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the starch is etherified or esterified prior to or after degradation.
Use of a reversible gelling agent according to any of the preceding claims for producing a reversible gel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.