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Food thickeners frequently are based on either polysaccharides (starches, vegetable gums, and pectin), or proteins. A flavourless powdered starch used for this purpose is a fecula (from the Latin faecula, diminutive of faex meaning "dregs").

This category includes arrowroot, cornstarch, katakuri starch, potato starch, sago, and tapioca. Vegetable gums used as food thickeners include alginin, guar gum, locust bean gum, and xanthan gum. Proteins used as food thickeners include collagen, egg whites, furcellaran, gelatin. Sugars include agar and carrageenan.

Other thickening agents act on the proteins already present in a food. One example is sodium pyrophosphate, which acts on casein in milk during the preparation of instant pudding. It exists authentic food thickener such as functional flours These functional flours are produced from specific cereal variety (wheat, maize, rice or other) conjugated to specific heat treatment able to increase stability, consistency and general functionalities.

These functional flours are resistance to industrial stresses: acidic pH, sterilisation, freeze conditions, and can help food industries to formulate with natural based ingredients. For the final consumer, these ingredients are more accepted because they are declared as "flour" in the ingredient list






thickeners Info

THICKENERS

E1200 Polydextrose


 


E1201 Polyvinylpyrrolidone

 

 


E1202 Polyvinylpolypyrrolidone

 


E1400 Dextrins

E1401 Acid Treated Starch



E1402 Alkaline Treated Starch  


E1403 Bleached Starch  

 

E1404 Oxidised Starch

 

 

E1410 Monostarch Phosphate

 

E1412 Distarch Phosphate

E1413 Phosphated Distarch Phosphate

 

 

E1422 Acetylated Distarch Adipate

 

       

E1420 Acetylated Di-Starch Phosphate

 

E1421 Starch Acetate *

 


E1423 Acetylated Di-Starch Glycerol *


 


E1440 Hydroxylpropyl Starch

 


 

E1441 Hydroxypropyl Distarch Glycerol

E1442 Hydroxypropyl Distarch Phosphate

E1450 Starch Sodium Octenyl Succinate

E1451 Acetylated Oxidised Starch

 


E1525 Hydroxy Ethyl Cellulose

 

 


E1414 Acetylated Starch

 

 

E1452 Starch Aluminium Octenyl Succinate

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E1205 Basic Methacrylate Copolymer

 

 


E1206 Neutral Methacrylate Copolymer

 


E1207 Anionic Methacrylate Copolymer

 

 


E1208 PVP-Vinyl Acetate Copolymer