Maize starch processing

Similar materials are available based on potato starch, eg, PaseUi SA2 which claims DE below 3 and has unique properties based on its amylose—amylopectin ratio pecuhar to potato starch. The product contains only 0.1% proteia and 0.06% fat which helps stabilize dried food mixes compounded with it. Another carbohydrate raw material is waxy-maize starch. Maltodextrias of differeat DE values of 6, 10, and 15, usiag waxy-maize starch, are available (Staley Co.). This product, called Stellar, is offered ia several physical forms such as agglomerates and hoUow spheres, and is prepared by acid modification (49). Maltodextrias based oa com starch are offered with DEs of 5, 10, 15, and 18 as powders or agglomerates (Grain Processing Corp.). 

Imported maize is the raw material for several food ingredients used in the bakery industry. While maize can be dry milled like wheat, it is more commonly wet milled. The wet milling process is much better suited to separating the different components of maize so that the oil, the protein and the starch can be recovered separately. Maize starch is used directly in bakery products as corn flour, so-called even in the UK. 

Chamberlain, E. K. 1996. Characterization of heated and thermally processed cross-linked waxy maize starch utilizing particle size analysis, microscopy and rheology. M. S. Thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 

Dail, R. V. and Steffe, J. F. 1990. Rheological characterization of crosslinked waxy maize starch solutions under low acid aseptic processing conditions using tube viscometiy techniques, y Food Sci. 55 1660-1665. 

A fiber optic probe was used by Blanco et al. for analysis of spasmoctyl samples with the active compound otilonium bromide and cellulose, maize starch, sodium starch glycolate, and glyceryl palmitostearate as excipients. Another study from this group covered the identification, qualification of the substance, and the quantification of the active component. A library search with a comparison to the near-infrared spectra of 163 pharmaceuticals was involved. An on-line monitoring for the determination of the endpoint of polymorph conversions in pharmaceutical processes was recently described further investigations into this field were published and are noted previously. ... 

A number of starch modifications are used in pharmaceutical applications. Pregelatinized or compressible starch has been chemically or mechanically processed to rupture all or part of the granules in water. It is then dried to yield an excipient material suitable for direct-compression formulations. Sterilizable maize starch contains magnesium oxide (not greater than 2.2%) and has been chemically or physically treated to prevent gelatinization on exposure to moisture or steam sterilization. Soluble starch results when potato or maize starch has been chemically treated to destroy the gelatinizing ability of starch. 

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