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The pearl powder used in pearl milk tea is a 06-10MM round granular snack food processed from tapioca starch imported from Thailand. It has the characteristics of short cooking time, sufficient elasticity in the mouth, and a Q-like texture. In addition, this product can also be added to various cold dishes, desserts, and fruit salads. Its products are divided into black, colored, original flavor and fruit flavor.

Tapioca starch characteristics

Color: Tapioca starch is white.

No odor: Tapioca starch has no peculiar smell and is suitable for products that require fine-tuned odor, such as food and cosmetics.

Bland taste: Tapioca starch has no taste and no aftertaste (such as corn), so it is more suitable than ordinary starch for products that require refined flavors, such as puddings, cakes, and stuffed pastry fillings.

Clear paste: The paste formed after cooking tapioca starch is clear and transparent, suitable for coloring with pigments. This property is also important for the use of cassava starch in sizing high-grade paper.

Viscosity: Since the ratio of amylopectin to amylose in raw cassava starch is as high as 80:20, it has a very high peak viscosity. This feature is suitable for many uses. At the same time, cassava starch can also be modified to eliminate stickiness and produce a loose structure, which is very important in many food processing.

High freeze-thaw stability: Cassava native starch paste exhibits relatively low reversibility, thereby preventing moisture loss during freeze-thaw cycles. This property can be further enhanced through modification.

Uses of cassava starch

Tapioca starch is widely used in the food industry and non-food industry in two categories: original starch and various modified starches.

Modified starch can be customized according to the specific requirements of users to suit special purposes.

Food

Tapioca starch is widely used in food formulations, such as baked products, and is also used to make extruded snacks and tapioca beads. Modified starch or starch derivatives have been used as thickeners, binders, bulking agents and stabilizers, and are also optimal extenders, sweeteners, flavor carriers and fat substitutes. Food products using Thai tapioca starch include canned foods, frozen foods, dry mix foods, baked goods, snacks, condiments, soups, sausages, dairy products, meat and fish products and baby food.

Beverages

Modified starch is used as a colloidal stabilizer in beverages containing solid ingredients. In beverages, tapioca starch sweeteners are superior to sucrose because the former improves processing and enhances product characteristics. When combined with other sweeteners, it can fully meet consumer needs. The highly hydrolyzed syrup formed by the hydrolysis of tapioca starch is an ideal source of easily fermentable sugars in beer brewing.

Candy

Tapioca native starch and various modified starches have many uses in candy production, such as gelling, thickening, stabilizing the system, enhancing foaming, controlling crystallization, and adhesion , film forming, adding luster, etc. Low viscosity tapioca starch is widely used in gelatinized confectionery such as jellies and chewing gum. The most commonly used starch is acid hydrolyzed starch because it has excellent reversibility and gelling ability, and these properties are more significant when exposed to sugar. Dry starch is used as a release agent in candy making. Starch-based polysaccharides enable the production of sugar-free chewing gum.

Chemical Industry

Tapioca starch-based syrup can be produced at low cost through acidolysis or enzymatic hydrolysis processes, and can be used as raw materials for the production of various chemicals, such as sodium glutamate, amino acids , organic acids, ethanol, ketones, vitamins and antibiotics, etc.

Adhesives and Glues

Tapioca starch dextrin is an excellent adhesive with a wide range of uses, including corrugated cardboard, paper bags, plywood, adhesive paper, adhesive tape, labels, stamps and envelopes, etc. .

Papermaking

The application of modified starch in the papermaking industry can improve paper quality, increase productivity and pulp utilization. Cationic starch is used to flocculate pulp and improve wet end dewatering efficiency, which results in higher paper machine speeds and higher pulp utilization. The starch retained on the finished paper acts as an internal sizing agent to increase the paper's strength. Low viscosity starches, such as oxidized starches, can be used as surface sizing agents to increase paper strength and improve ink absorption when printing and writing. Modified starch is also used as a binder in pigment coatings to produce smooth, white, high-grade paper.

Textile

In the textile industry, in order to improve textile efficiency, tapioca starch is often used as a sizing agent to harden and protect the yarn; as a finishing agent to produce fabrics with a smooth feel. ; Used as a color enhancer to obtain crisp, hard-wearing printed fabrics. For textile applications, the use of lightly cooked starch is more effective.

Pharmaceuticals and cosmetics

Tapioca native starch and modified starch can be used as binders, extenders and disintegrants in tablet production. Specially modified starch can also be used as a carrier for emollient, usually a mineral oil-based substance. Other modified starches can be used as emulsifiers, encapsulating agents (vitamins), styling agents (hair mousses) and thickeners (shampoos).

Biodegradable materials

Tapioca native starch and modified starch can be blended with petroleum-based or synthetic polymer materials to improve the biodegradability of the materials, thus making this type of environmentally friendly Material production costs are minimized