Soups starch thickeners

In sauces and soups starch is used as a thickener that provides also a specific texture and mouthfeel. Those functionalities are particularly critical in low-fat products where starches are expected to provide the same textural and mouthfeel experience commonly associated with conventional products. 

Potato Ingredient of baked goods, snacks and soups. Thickening agent. IPotato starch thickens better than any of the other common food starches. Hence, only small amonts ate required.1... 

Starches are added to processed meats—lunch meats, hot dogs, sausages, etc.—as fillers, binders, moisture retainers, and fat substitutes. They are added to soups, sauces, and gravies as thickeners. They are used in extruded cereals and snacks to hold the shape of the material. 

Oatrim can be used in cheeses as a fat replacer.12 Other possible applications are in ice cream and frozen desserts, milk shakes, hot chocolate, instant-type breakfast drinks, cereals, salad dressings, soups, sauces and gravies. Oat starch in combination with oat hydrolysate or with xanthan gum has been used for thickening of sweet and sour sauces.18... 

Naturally, there are wide variations in the requirements of any specific colloidal function. For example, starch is employed as a thickening agent to provide a smooth creamy texture to the following products gravy, cream soups, sauces, chop suey, Harvard beets, salad dressings, prepared mustard, cream pie fillings, fruit pie fillings, pork and beans, cream-style corn, and baby foods. 

Sauces use many of the same basic ingredients as soups process flavors (meaty notes), comminuted vegetables or extracts, thickening agents (e.g., starches, flour, gelatin, and hydrocolloides), ground spices or derivatives thereof (e.g., essential oils... 

Stabilization and thickening, prevention of synaeresis, freeze-thaw stability of soups, sauces, salad dressing, mayonnaise, ketchup obtaining body in low-fat and low-starch products... 

Starch is an important thickening and binding agent and is used extensively in the production of puddings, soups, sauces, salad dressings, diet food preparations for infants, pastry hlling, mayonnaise, etc. Com starch is the main food starch and an important raw material for the isolation of starch symp and glucose (cf. 19.1.4.3). 

In addition, esterified starch has an improved freeze-thaw stability. These starches are utilized as thickeners and stabilizers in bakery products, soup powders, sauces, puddings, refrigerated food, heat-sterilized canned food and in margarines. The starch esters are also suitable as protective coatings, e. g., for dehydrated fruits or for aroma trapping or encapsulation (cf. Table 4.26). 

Emulsifiers, Stabilizers, and Thickeners. A wide variety of products are used to improve texture. For example, lecithin, obtained primarly from soybeans is used as an emulsifier in dressings and chocolates, to keep ingredients in a processed form from separating. Pectin and gelatin are added to thicken jams and jellies and gums, dextrins, and starches are used to give more substance to soups and desserts. 

A complex carbohydrate molecule made up of glucose units linked together in a branched chain. Amylopectin is the major component of starches from corn, rice, and barley in which it often comprises the outer layer of the starch granules. These starches make excellent thickeners for cream soups, gravies, puddings, and white sauces. 

Starches also have the ability, when mixed with water and cooked, to swell and thicken a liquid— gravies, sauces, and soups. 

Wheat starch A white, odorless, tasteless gtenular or powdery material. Wheat starch is used as a thickener in soup where its lower gelatinbation temperature and shorter gei lempurature range is an advantage. Syrup and suger. ... 

Chem. Descrip. Pregeiatinized starch from waxy maize Uses Texturizer, stabiiizer for foods, esp. bakery prods, (frozen dough, cookies), cheese sauces, instant soups/sauces/gravies, food powds., saiad dressings, mayonnaise, beverage mixes thickener, stabiiizer, binder, emuisifier in foods Regulatory Kosher, Haiai certified... 

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