Abstract:
A process for the modification, solubilization and/or hydrolysis of a glycosidically linked carbohydrate having reducing groups using a mixture comprising water, an inorganic acid and a halide of lithium, magnesium or calcium. The process is particularly useful for converting cellulose (derived for example from waste-paper, wood or sawdust) or starch to glucose. When cellulose is the starting material the preferred halide is a lithium halide. When starch is the starting material a magnesium halide is preferred.
Abstract:
An amylaceous material having alkaline viscosities in the range of 10 to 20 seconds using a 1.3 g sample and 15 to 20 seconds using a 5.2 g sample and having cold water solubles of between 50% and 98% is made by hydrolysis of starting material such as corn, flour, corn meal, corn grits, corn starch, sorghum flour, sorghum meal and sorghum grits at moistures between 5% and 12%, adjusting the pH of the hydrolyzed amylaceous material to between pH 3 and 6, gelatinizing the pH adjusted hydrolyzed amylaceous material, and removing water from the gelatinized product.
Abstract:
Waxy, small granule starch of high spreadability, and waxy, large granule starch which is capable of forming an exceptionally clear and bright paste, are simultaneously produced by steeping waxy barley grain for a period of at least 12 hours in an aqueous solution containing sulfur dioxide at a temperature of 45.degree.-55.degree. C so as to swell the grain and extract soluble protein contained within said grain, water washing and milling said steeped grain, separating the starch from fibers and protein, suspending said starch in water to form a suspension containing less than 15% wt solids, permitting larger granules to settle for a period of at least 2 hours and recovering a larger granule fraction, said larger granules being characterized by an average particle size of greater than 10.mu., and breaking the remaining suspension and recovering therefrom a smaller granule fraction, said small granules being characterized by an average particle size of from 2.5 to 10.mu..
Abstract:
A wet process for separating certain cereal starch granules according to size, and the large granule cereal starch made thereby. Barley, rye and wheat starch may be treated in the process, and may be subjected to further modifications, such as cross-linking, to further improve the properties of the product.
Abstract:
Production on an industrial scale of amylose having a high purity is made possible by a process for producing amylose mainly composed of a high molecular amylose, wherein amylomaize starch having a high amylose content or amylose starch separated from sweet potato starch, white potato starch or corn starch is subjected to hydrolysis to selectively hydrolyze only Alpha 1,6-glucoside bond of the arborescent structure of amylopectin contained therein in an amount of 20-40 percent with Alpha -1,6glucosidase, i.e., an enzyme produced by Aerobacter, Pseudomonas, Lactobacillus or Escherichia, thereby obtaining starch of amylose type.
Abstract:
A NOVEL CONVERTING STARCH PRODUCT COMPRISING A STARCH BASE WHICH IS ADMIXED WITH A MODIFYING AGENT, AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS OF WHICH PRODUCT DISPLAY A HIGH VICOSITY WHEN FIRST GELATINIZED BUT UPON BEING COOKED AT RETORT TEMPERATURES ARE CONVERTED RESULTING IN A DISPERSION EXHIBITING A SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED VICOSITY. THE MODIFYING AGENT IS ASCORBIC ACID, ARABOASCORBIC ACID DIHYDROXYMALEIC ACID. SUCH STARCH PRODUCTS FIND A PARTICULAR USE IN THE COMMERCIAL PREPARATION OF FOODS.
Abstract:
Process for making a granular starch product exhibiting a lower gelatinization temperature and a higher reactivity than the starch from which it is derived which includes subjecting the starch, in dry form or in an aqueous slurry, to the action of a vibration mill for a relatively short period of time.
Abstract:
Starches, the granules of which are substantially completely intact and which have lost from about 40 percent to 100 percent birefringence, which will rapidly hydrate in cold water to form smooth, viscous pastes, are prepared as follows. Nongelatinized starch is slurried with (1) a solvent for starch (preferably water), and (2) an organic liquid which is miscible with the solvent for starch (e.g., methanol); the slurry is continuously passed through a confined zone wherein it is subjected to gelatinizing conditions. The process conditions are so selected as to produce the desired end product.
Abstract:
Method of preparing a starch useful as a batter mix to prepare breaded, deep-fried foods. Particularly covers a method of preparing a batter starch by treating an acidic aqueous slurry of raw starch with a mixture of hypohalogenous acid and halogen, followed by treatment with an oxidizing agent. In a preferred embodiment an alkali metal hypohalite such as sodium hypochlorite is the treatment agent in the first step and the oxidizing agent is hydrogen peroxide. The resultant starch when used as a batter mix results in a fried batter coating displaying a high degree of adhesion and cohesion.