Functional label-friendly starches
SimPure® starches help address consumers’ desire for simple ingredients and familiar labels, at the same time giving manufacturers greater process tolerance, shelf life and storage stability.
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Starches & Derivatives
The broadest starch portfolio in the industry, supported by world-class formulation expertise
Whether your objective is to create an entirely new product or reformulate an existing one, Cargill supplies a wide variety of nature-derived starches, to deliver on the most challenging consumer expectations.
Our offering spans from native starches made from corn, wheat, tapioca to a wide range of functional starches; both label-friendly and Modified starches.
Cargill’s wide starch portfolio is backed by application centers offering extensive application know-how and pilot production facilities, helping you create new concepts and tailor existing formulations. Cargill brings unmatched technical support and expertise to a partnership focused on your success.
To ensure a long-term sustainable crop supply for food starch, Cargill has committed to source waxy corn 100% sustainably from European farmers. In support of this initiative Cargill has developed the Waxy Corn Sustainable Sourcing.
The Offer
Native Starches
Derived from sources such as maize, waxy maize, high amylose maize, wheat and tapioca; native starches are generally used for the purpose of food texturizing and thickening.
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Modified Starches
Modified starches are derived from different botanical sources such maize, waxy maize, tapioca and help providing various functionalities, from thickening to gelling, bulking and emulsifying. At the same time, enable wide range of texture and improved performance. Modified starches can also provide tailored solutions for specific applications, processes and storage requirements.
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Dried Glucose and Maltodextrin
Dried glucose syrup and Maltodextrin are obtained by enzymatic conversion of starch. They help improving texture and flavor, thickening foods and binding the ingredients together while extending the shelf life.
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Regulatory status
In the EU, native starches, dextrins and thinned starches modified by acid, alkali or enzymatic treatment are labeled as “starch” food ingredients. Starches modified through oxidation, esterification and etherification are regulated under Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on food additives, Annex II.
Production sites
Sas van Gent, Netherlands
Modified Starch
Native Starch
Label Friendly starch
Botanicals processed: Corn, Tapioca, Waxy Corn, Wheat
Haubourdin, France
Maltodextrin, Spray dried glucose
Label Friendly starch
Modified Starch
Waxy Corn, Corn, Tapioca, Potato
Castlemassa, Italy
Native starch
Corn
Martorell, Spain
Native Starch
Corn
Krefeld, Germany
Native starch
Corn
Langholt, Denmark
Label Friendly starch
Native starch
Potato, Corn
Starches & derivatives
Cargill is a supplier and producer of food starches and derivatives: modified food starch, modified corn starch, native starch, resistant starch.
Some Cargill products are only approved for use in certain geographies, end uses, and/or at certain usage levels. It is the customer's responsibility to determine, for a particular geography, that (i) the Cargill product, its use and usage levels, (ii) the customer's product and its use, and (iii) any claims made about the customer's product, all comply with applicable laws and regulations.