02 food:
Cassava starch is widely used in food formulations, such as baked products, and also used to make extruded snacks and cassava beads. Modified starch or starch derivatives have been used as thickeners, adhesives, fillers and stabilizers, and are also the best fillers, sweeteners, flavoring carriers and fat substitutes. Foods using Thai cassava starch include canned food, frozen food, dry mixed food, baked food, snack food, seasoning, soup, sausage, dairy products, meat and fish products and baby food.
Drinks:
Modified starch is used as colloid stabilizer in beverages containing solid components. The application of cassava starch sweetener in beverages is better than sucrose, because the former improves the processing technology and strengthens the product characteristics, and can fully meet the needs of consumers when used with other sweeteners. The syrup with high degree of hydrolysis formed by cassava starch hydrolysis is an ideal source of fermentable sugar in beer brewing.
03 candy:
Cassava starch and various modified starches have many uses in candy production, such as gelling, thickening, stabilizing the system, enhancing foaming, controlling crystallization, bonding, forming films, adding luster and so on. Low viscosity tapioca starch is widely used to gel candy, such as frozen and chewing gum. Acid-hydrolyzed starch is the most commonly used, because it has excellent reversibility and gelling ability, and these characteristics are more obvious when sugar is involved. Dry starch is used as a release agent in candy manufacturing. Starch-based polysaccharide realized the production of sugar-free chewing gum.
Chemical industry:
Cassava starch-based syrup can be produced at low cost by acid hydrolysis or enzymolysis, so it can be used as raw materials to produce various chemicals, such as sodium glutamate, amino acids, organic acids, ethanol, ketones, vitamins and antibiotics.
04 adhesives and glues:
Cassava starch dextrin is an excellent adhesive, which is widely used, including corrugated board, paper bag, plywood, adhesive tape, adhesive tape, labels, stamps, envelopes and so on.
Papermaking:
The application of modified starch in paper industry can improve paper quality, productivity and pulp utilization. Cationic starch is used to flocculate pulp and improve wet-end dewatering efficiency. As a result, a higher paper machine speed can be used, and a higher pulp utilization rate can be obtained. The starch left on the finished paper can be used as an internal sizing agent to increase the strength of the paper. Low viscosity starch, such as oxidized starch, can be used as surface sizing agent to improve paper strength and ink absorption in printing and writing. Modified starch is also used as a binder in pigment coating to produce smooth and white high-grade paper.