Microcrystalline starch-based product and use in foods
AssigneeOpta Food Ingredients, Inc.
InventorsAkiva Gross, Stephen G. Haralampu
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Abstract
A microcrystalline starch-based product comprising microcrystalline starch, glucose and short chain glucooligosaccharides and having an average particle size of less than about 10 .mu., and a process for making the microcrystalline starch-based product consisting of optionally debranching, retrograding and hydrolyzing a starch are disclosed. Also disclosed are food formulations comprising the microcrystalline resistant starch-based product.
Claims17
A microcrystalline starch-based product produced from retrograded and hydrolyzed starch and comprising microcrystalline starch, glucose and short chain glucooligosaccharides and having an average particle size of less than about 10 .mu..
A microcrystalline starch-based product comprising microcrystalline starch, glucose and short chain glucooligosaccharides and having an average particle size of less than about 10 .mu., produced by a process consisting of the steps of:
- a) incubating a hydrated starch dispersion under conditions sufficient for retrogradation of at least a portion of the starch to occur;
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- b) incubating a suspension of the product of step (a) with a catalyst under conditions sufficient for hydrolysis of amorphous starch regions to occur.
A method of preparing a microcrystalline starch-based product comprising microcrystalline starch, glucose and short chain glucooligosaccharides and having an average particle size of less than about 10 .mu., consisting of the steps of:
- a) incubating a hydrated starch dispersion under conditions sufficient for retrogradation of at least a portion of the starch to occur;
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- b) incubating a suspension of the product of step (a) with a catalyst under conditions sufficient for hydrolysis of amorphous starch regions to occur.
A food or beverage containing a microcrystalline starch-based product comprising water-insoluble microcrystalline starch, glucose and short chain glucooligosaccharides and having an average particle size of less than about 10 .mu..
A food or beverage wherein at least a portion of the sugar, fat or flour has been replaced by a microcrystalline starch-based product comprising water-insoluble microcrystalline starch, glucose and short chain glucooligosaccharides and having an average particle size of less than about 10 .mu..
A reduced-fat food or beverage wherein at least a portion of the fat has been replaced by a microcrystalline starch-based product comprising water-insoluble microcrystalline starch, glucose and short chain glucooligosaccharides and having an average particle size of less than about 10 .mu..
A frozen food or beverage containing a microcrystalline starch-based product comprising water-insoluble microcrystalline starch, glucose and short chain glucooligosaccharides and having an average particle size of less than about 10 .mu., which microcrystalline starch-based product inhibits ice crystal formation in the frozen food product.
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