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Capitol Food Company Yeast Food is a mixture of several nutrients required for the growth of yeast in the fermentation process. Yeast or Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a single-celled microorganism that needs food, warmth, and moisture to thrive. Through the process of fermentation, it converts sugars into carbon dioxide and alcohol, and these two byproducts make yeast extremely useful in food production.

Capitol Food Company White Rice Flour is produced by grinding polished rice (rice with bran and germ removed) into a powder. This flour can be used as a thickening agent for sauces and puddings. It is also very popular for the preparation of a variety of Asian noodles.

Capitol Food Company Brown Sugar is a sucrose sugar product with a distinctive brown color due to the presence of molasses. It is either an unrefined or partially refined soft sugar consisting of sugar crystals with some residual molasses content that can be produced by adding molasses to refined white sugar.

Capitol Food Company Dough Freeze 2 is an SQF-certified, high-quality, and cost-effective dough conditioner. This product is ideal for conditioning frozen dough products.

Capitol Food Company Cracked Rye is the rye equivalent of cracked wheat or steel-cut oats. To obtain this product, the whole kernel (the rye berry) is cracked or cut into a few pieces that are quicker to cook than the completely intact rye berry. Rye is a grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop, and a forage crop. As a member of the wheat tribe, it is closely related to barley and wheat.

Capitol Food Company Brown Rice Flour is 100% stone ground from the highest quality whole grain brown rice. This versatile gluten-free flour has a mild, nutty flavor and is used as breading, for thickening sauces and gravies, and in gluten-free baking recipes (brown rice flour pancakes, muffins, and gluten-free bread).

Capitol Food Company Natural Mold Inhibitors are natural preservatives that help control mold growth and prolong the shelf life of food. These clean-label mold inhibitors include vinegar, raisin and prune juice concentrate, fermented/cultured flours, cultured starches and plum paste, and whey.

Capitol Food Company Sea Salt is produced by the evaporation of seawater. This high-quality, cost-effective product is also called bay salt, solar salt, or salt. It is used as a seasoning in foods, for cooking, for preserving food, and in cosmetics.

Capitol Food Company Ovenspring is a dough conditioner combining ascorbic acid with a multi-enzyme blend. This product provides dough improvement, dough makeup, dough strength, and improved dough machinability and development in bakery applications. Our product is SQF-certified, high-quality, and cost-effective.

Capitol Food Company Potassium Sorbate is the potassium salt of sorbic acid. This white salt is very soluble in water and is primarily used as a food preservative. It is effective in a variety of applications, including food, wine, and personal-care products.

Capitol Food Company Calcium Propionate is an organic salt that helps preserve food by interfering with the ability of microorganisms, such as molds and bacteria, to reproduce. It is used as a preservative in bread and other baked goods, and it may be combined with propionic acid and sodium propionate.

Capitol Food Company Kosher Salt is an SQF-certified, high-quality, and cost-effective coarse edible salt for use in various food applications. This product does not contain common additives such as anti-caking agents and iodine.

Capitol Food Company ADA Tablets are specialty-formulated dough improver tablets that provide oxidation, strength, volume, and elasticity to various dough applications. Our product is SQF-certified, high-quality, and cost-effective.

Capitol Food Company Powdered Sugar is also called confectioners’ sugar, 10X sugar, or icing sugar and is used in food applications. It is a finely ground sugar produced by milling granulated sugar into a powder form. This product is SQF-certified, high-quality, and cost-effective.

Capitol Food Company Potato Flour is obtained by grinding peeled and trimmed whole potatoes. This flour attracts and holds water, producing moist yeast bread with an excellent shelf life. It can be used as a thickener for smoother sauces, gravies, and soups, as well as in gluten-free cooking.

Capitol Food Company Guar Gum is also called guaran, a galactomannan polysaccharide extracted from guar beans. This product has thickening and stabilizing properties that are useful in food, feed, and industrial applications. The guar seeds are mechanically dehusked, hydrated, milled, and screened according to application. It is typically produced as a free-flowing, off-white powder.

Capitol Food Company Lecithin is a generic term given to designate any group of yellow-brownish fatty substances that occur in animal and plant tissues and are amphiphilic in nature, i.e., attract both water and fatty substances. It is used for smoothing food textures, emulsifying, homogenizing liquid mixtures, and repelling sticking materials.

Capitol Food Company Molasses is a viscous product resulting from refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. It varies by the amount of sugar, method of extraction, and age of the plant. Sugarcane molasses is primarily used for sweetening and flavoring foods.

Capitol Food Company Maltodextrin is a white powder made from corn, rice, potato starch, or wheat. It is produced by cooking the starches first, followed by the addition of acids or enzymes such as heat-stable bacterial alpha-amylase to break them down further to obtain maltodextrin. This highly processed plant product is easily digestible, rapidly absorbed as glucose, and may either be moderately sweet or almost flavorless.

Capitol Food Company Cocoa Powder is obtained when cocoa butter, the fat portion of cacao beans, is removed during processing. The remaining dried solids are ground into a product that is sold as cocoa powder. This is a high-quality, cost-effective, and SQF-certified product.

Capitol Food Company 50 Grain Vinegar is an aqueous solution of acetic acid and trace chemicals that may include flavorings. In much of the vinegar industry, the term "grain" is used to measure the strength of vinegar. In this terminology, 50 grain refers to 5% acidity. The term "grain" comes from an alternate measure of weight, the grain. By dissolving a base like sodium bicarbonate or sodium hydroxide in water, you could measure how many grains it took to neutralize vinegar of a specific strength and volume. In the most common formulation, it took 10 grains (presumably of sodium hydroxide) to neutralize 1% acetic acid, so the usage of grains for vinegar strength became interchangeable.

Capitol Food Company Brown Rice Syrup is a sweetener derived from brown rice. It is produced by exposing cooked rice to enzymes that break down starches and turn them into smaller sugars, followed by filtering out the impurities. This product contains three sugars, i.e., maltotriose (52%), maltose (45%), and glucose (3%).

Capitol Food Company Potato Granules are obtained during a process where the potato cells remain almost intact, which leads to a very low proportion of starch. This low starch content gives the granules a distinctive potato flavor, a short structure, and low expansion. This product is soluble at high temperatures when used as a thickening agent and can be used in snack products.

Capitol Food Company Oat Fiber is a great source of insoluble fiber with many nutritional and functional benefits. It absorbs high amounts of lipids and water, resulting in improved crumb softness and texture. It also improves nutrition, yields, and functionality in foods like cereals, breads, snacks, bars, and meat products.

Capitol Food Company Tapioca Starch is also known as tapioca flour, a starchy white flour that is slightly sweet in flavor. It is a popular gluten-free flour made from starch extracted from the South American cassava plant. It is best known for the thick, chewy texture it lends to gluten-free baked goods. It also works well as an allergy-friendly thickener for sauces, soups, puddings, and stews.

Capitol Food Company Dough Conditioners are natural or chemical-origin ingredients that are used in baking formulations. They can improve flour baking performance and produce high-quality baked goods with an extended shelf life while also maintaining consistent production processes. It includes enzymes, yeast nutrients, mineral salts, oxidants, reductants, and emulsifiers.

Capitol Food Company Bakers Bran (Regular, Coarse, Red & White) is a wheat bran with finer particle size and texture made from a mix of premium hard wheat. It is very high in fiber and adds flavor and texture to baked goods, cereals, and pasta.

Capitol Food Company Vital Wheat Gluten is isolated from hard wheat flour by natural wet-processing techniques followed by a delicate flash-drying process. It retains the vitality or viscoelasticity of wet gluten before the drying step. This product provides strength and elasticity, increases volume, and improves the texture of bread, buns, dinner rolls, and other yeast-leavened products. It imparts firmness to pasta and noodles and is used to enhance the protein content of breakfast cereals and snacks.

Capitol Food Company Baking Powder is a dry chemical leavening agent which is a mixture of a carbonate or bicarbonate and a weak acid. The base and acid are prevented from reacting prematurely by the inclusion of a buffer such as cornstarch. This product is used to increase the volume and lighten the texture of baked goods. It works by releasing carbon dioxide gas into the batter or dough through an acid-base reaction, causing bubbles in the wet mixture to expand and thus leavening the mixture.

Capitol Food Company Basic Spice Mix is a spice blend that is used to enhance flavor and tenderize sweet goods, donuts, cakes, and cookies. Our product is SQF-certified, high-quality, and cost-effective.

Capitol Food Company 200 Grain Vinegar is an aqueous solution of acetic acid and trace chemicals that may include flavorings. In much of the vinegar industry, the term "grain" is used to measure the strength of vinegar. In this terminology, 200 grain refers to 20% acidity. The term "grain" comes from an alternate measure of weight, the grain. By dissolving a base like sodium bicarbonate or sodium hydroxide in water, you could measure how many grains it took to neutralize vinegar of a specific strength and volume. In the most common formulation, it took 10 grains (presumably of sodium hydroxide) to neutralize 1% acetic acid, so the usage of grains for vinegar strength became interchangeable.

Capitol Food Company Evaporated Food Grade Salt is a high-purity salt used in food processing and for human consumption. It has a minimum of 99.9% NaCl and contains virtually no insolubles. This product is SQF-certified, high-quality, and cost-effective.

Capitol Food Company Honey is a sweet liquid made by bees using nectar from flowers. It has high levels of monosaccharides (fructose and glucose) and contains about 70 to 80% sugar, which provides sweetness. It also has antiseptic and antibacterial properties.

Capitol Food Company Vinegar is an aqueous solution of acetic acid and trace chemicals that may include flavorings. This product typically contains 5 - 8% acetic acid by volume and is produced by the fermentation of ethanol or sugars using acetic acid bacteria. It is mainly used in the culinary arts as a flavorful, acidic cooking ingredient or in pickling. Depending on the source materials, there are many types of vinegar.

Capitol Food Company Dextrose is a simple sugar made from corn. It is chemically identical to glucose, or blood sugar, and is often used in baking products as a sweetener. This ingredient is commonly found in items such as processed foods and corn syrup.

Capitol Food Company Staysoft is a blend of fungal and bacterial enzymes that help improve crumb, grain, and texture. Additionally, it also extends stale-free shelf life. This high-quality, cost-effective, and SQF-certified product contains ingredients such as calcium sulfate along with fungal and bacterial enzymes.