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Food Chemistry
Potato Starch
Formula:
(C6H10O5)n
GOST/CAS:
ГОСТ 7699-78 / CAS 9005-25-8
Potato starch is a premium, naturally derived polysaccharide extracted from high-quality potato tubers. It presents as a homogenous, fine-grained powder, white to slightly off-white in color, with a characteristic crystalline luster. Operating as a critical technological component in the food processing industry, it serves as a powerful thickener, texture modifier, stabilizer, and water-binding agent. Due to the high viscosity of its gelatinized paste, exceptional clarity of its solutions, and entirely neutral flavor profile, it is an indispensable ingredient across a wide range of food formulations.
Applications
Meat and Sausage Processing: Utilized as an efficient water-binding agent in the production of boiled sausages, frankfurters, wieners, and pates. It retains natural meat juices, prevents syneresis (moisture separation), and enhances the density, texture, and sliceability of the final product.
Confectionery and Bakery Products: Incorporated into recipes for biscuits, gingerbread, cakes, and sponge batters to improve crumb structure, impart softness and tenderness, and extend shelf life. It reliably retains moisture within fillings during baking.
Dairy and Oil-Based Formulations: Widely used in the manufacture of mayonaises, sauces, ketchups, processed cheeses, and yogurt products. It delivers a rich, creamy texture, excellent glossy finish, ensures emulsion stability, and prevents structural separation during storage.
Instant and Dry Mixes: An essential component in instant soups, gravies, ketchups, puddings, and batter mixes. It guarantees rapid thickening upon reconstitution with hot water and aids in the uniform distribution of spices and flavorings.
Key Advantages
Superior Paste Viscosity: Exhibits significantly higher peak viscosity of its hot paste compared to corn or wheat starches, allowing manufacturers to reduce raw material dosages in recipes while achieving the desired thickness.
Neutral Organoleptic Profile: Possesses a clean, neutral taste and odor, ensuring that it does not mask, alter, or distort the authentic flavor and aroma profiles of the end food product.
Clarity and High Gloss: Upon gelatinization, potato starch solutions remain highly transparent, imparting an appealing, appetizing, and glossy sheen to sauces, gravies, and fruit fillings.
Natural and Safe: A 100% plant-based carbohydrate that is completely free from Genetically Modified Organisms (Non-GMO), hypoallergenic, and fully digestible, meeting clean-label market requirements.
Storage & Transportation
- Store in clean, dry, well-ventilated warehouse premises, strictly free from grain and food pests, at a relative air humidity not exceeding 75%.
- Do not store concurrently with products that possess strong, pungent, or specific odors to prevent cross-contamination.
- Protect from direct sunlight, moisture, and atmospheric precipitation. Storage on pallets is highly recommended.
- Transportation is carried out by all types of covered transport vehicles in strict compliance with food-grade cargo regulations.
- Shelf Life: 2 years from the date of manufacture (subject to compliance with prescribed storage conditions).
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Technical Specifications
Appearance
Homogenous white powder with a crystalline luster
Odor and Taste
Characteristic of starch, free from foreign odors or off-flavors
Moisture Content
≤17.0% – 20.0% (depending on grade)
Total Ash (on dry basis)
≤0.35% – 0.5%
Acidity (cm³ of 0.1 n. NaOH solution per 100 g of dry matter)
6.0 – 14.0
Sulfur Dioxide Content
≤50 mg/kg
Supply info
- Industrial heavy-duty multi-wall paper or polypropylene bags with an internal polyethylene liner, net weight 25 kg.
- Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (FIBC / Big Bags) of 500 kg and 1000 kg for large-scale industrial food manufacturing.