Product Profile of Food Grade Maltodextrin Starch
Food grade maltodextrin starch is used in baby foods, feed supplements, geriatric foods and foods for convalescents. The maltodextrin acts as flavouring, bodying and drying agent in chocolate drinks, flavour powders, special diets, citrus powders and coffee powders, besides others. The maltodextrin is a white free flowing powder. The food grade maltodextrin starch is bland in taste.
Application of food grade maltodextrin starch:
- Geriatric foods and foods for convalescents
- Used as a carrying and dispersing agent for flavours and is ideally suited for encapsulation.
- Flavouring, bodying and drying agent in chocolate drinks, flavour powders, special diets, citrus powders and coffee powders, besides others.
- Used in soup powders, concentrates and spices, spice flavour blends, cheese sauces, cream sauces, pizza sauces and salad dressings as a bodying agent, flavour enhancer, oxygen barrier, colour controller, stabilising and viscosity builder and as a spray-drying agent.
Key Features of Food Grade Maltodextrin Starch
- Starch test: negative
- Bulk density gm/ ml: 0.25 min
- Sulphate ash: 1.0% max
- Total Ash: 0.1 to 0.2% max
