Rice Starch
Your Natural Choice for Clean, Trustworthy Food Ingredients
Rice amylose features a branched structure with 2-5 chains, setting it apart from other food starches that primarily consist of linear amylose. This branching allows rice amylose to maintain its integrity within starch granules during heating.
When amylose breaks free from the starch granules and enters the water phase, it tends to remain unstructured upon cooling. This unique characteristic leads to the formation of a soft gel that is easily broken down by chewing, resulting in a creamy texture.
As a result, rice starch is an excellent gelatin replacer in dairy desserts, providing a delightful mouthfeel while enhancing the overall sensory experience.
When it comes to fat content, rice starch is an excellent choice for creating smooth, creamy textures in fat-reduced products, offering a natural solution without sacrificing mouthfeel. Plus, it reduces fat in your products by 20% without sacrificing taste or texture. Helping you create healthier and more appealing products at the same time.
While Titanium dioxide as an artificial whitening agent has been under scrutiny due to its genotoxicity risks, Tiba rice starch offers a natural alternative that's just as effective in addition to its small granule size, neutral taste, and bright white color making it an ideal whitening agent and a viable alternative you can safely rely on.
Rice starch offers superior shelf-life and freeze-thaw stability compared to other food starches due to its unique structure, which has fewer mid-sized end-standing branches, also known as C-chains. in its amylopectin, helping it retain water better and stay stable during freezing and thawing.
This makes rice starch ideal for products like baby food, fruit preparations, and frozen meals, where longer shelf-life and natural ingredient stability are essential.
Food Applications
Rice starch is highly valued in the food industry, particularly for enhancing flavor and texture in confectioneries, fried chicken coatings, snacks, and baked goods.
Additionally, it provides stability in fruit preparations, particularly in challenging low-pH environments with variable temperatures.
Its ability to offer a clean label alternative to titanium dioxide is increasingly important, especially
since the European Union and EFSA have scrutinized and restricted the use of titanium dioxide as a food additive.
Applications Across Multiple Industries
Applications Across Multiple Industries
From dairy products, infant foods, and processed meats to cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and even pet food, rice starch is an essential ingredient in a wide range of products. Its versatility, combined with clean label appeal, makes it a powerful choice to elevate your formulations with a sustainable, natural solution to a whole new, unique, and unparalleled level!