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Cargill Modified Starches - a dish of pasta with tomato sauce

Modified Starches

Creating appetizing texture and high performance.

Modified starches are derived from different botanical sources such as potato, maize, waxy maize, tapioca and help providing various functionalities, from thickening to gelling, bulking and emulsifying.

Modified starches in action!

Our applications teams are constantly testing modified starch potential by creating delicious, on-trend prototypes.

Culinary

Features / Benefits

  • Helps bringing body and mouthfeel in hot prepared sauces, dips and dressings
  • Great cold storage stability for ready meals
  • Starches for pulpy, creamy or indulgent textures
  • Starches with great clarity for transparent sauces and dressings

We recommend:

  • C*PolarTex ®, C*Tex ®, C*EmTex ®, C*CreamTex ®, C*PulpTex ®, C*Tex ® Instant, C*PolarTex ® Instant, C*HiForm ® , C*BatterCrisp ®

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Dairy & Plant-based alternatives to dairy

Features / Benefits

  • Helps providing viscosity and texture for a range of process conditions

  • Helps enhancing creaminess

  • Enables fat and caesin replacement

 

We recommend:

C*PolarTex ® , C*PolarTex ® Instant, C*CreamTex ® , C*Stretch ® , C*EmTex ® , C*Tex ® , C*DeliTex ® , C*Tex ® Instant, C*HiForm A ® , C*EmCap ® , C*PulpTex ®

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Confectionery

Features / Benefits

  • Provides wide range of gelled textures

  • Starches enable molding and coatings

  • Both clear and opaque

  • Enables tailored solutions / application for vegetarian or vegan

  • Helps reducing drying time

     

We recommend:

  • C*Set ® , C*ClearSet ® , C*AraSet, C*HiForm ®

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Beverages & Specialized nutrition

Features / Benefits

  • Texture enhancement through pulpiness or creaminess

  • Enables cold storage stability for emulsions

We recommend:

  • EmulTru, C*PolarTex ® , C*CreamTex ® , C*EmCap ® , C*HiForm ® A

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Bakery and Fillings

Features / Benefits

  • Batter stabilisation

  • Enables shelf life extension

  • Naturally Gluten free

  • Fillings with a range of textures

  • Offers both hot and cold preparation (cook up and instant)

     

We recommend:

  • C*EmTex ® , C*Tex ® Instant, C*PolarTex ® , C*PolarTex ® Instant, C*Tex ® , C*PulpTex ® , C*Mix, C*CreamTex ®

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Meat & Plant-based alternatives to meat

Features / Benefits

  • Enables crisp and crunchy batters

  • Helps improved yields

  • Helps shape retention

We recommend:

  • C*PolarTex ®, C*PolarTex ® Instant, C*Tex ® ,C*EmTex ®,  C*Tex  ® Instant   

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