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Knowde-enriched technical product data sheet
Identification & Functionality
- Ingredient Name
- Ingredient Origin
- Food Ingredients Functions
- Ingredients
- Maltodextrin
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
- Labeling Claims
- Food Ingredients Features
- Properties
- Nutritional pure carbohydrates
- Excellent carrier of sweetness and spices
- Low calorie, low cholesterol
- It is all kinds of food filling and thickening agent
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Food & Nutrition Applications
- Applications
- Maltodextrins are used as crystallization inhibitor. Added in candies and half-soft sweets, it can prevent sweets appearing sand and extend the shelf life. Debasing and eliminating the smell of mutton, stabilizing the alimentation elements, keeping the character and flavor and increasing the quality.
- Maltodextrins are used as source of carbohydrate in high-energy drink, especially for athletes. They also are easily digestible carbohydrates for nutritional beverages, which fits athletes training to increase sugar content in musculature and enhance physical strength and eliminate fatigue.
- Maltodextrins are used as carrier for spray-drying of active substances.
- Maltodextrins are used as diluents in single unit dosage preparations such as sachets. Because of their inherent polymeric nature maltodextrins also make excellent binders for direct compression. Since it has weak sweetness, they're widely used in food processing such as sweets, ice cream, jam, cakes etc., and the flavor of other materials in the products can be improved.
- Maltodextrins are used as coating agent in pharmaceutical industries.
- Maltodextrins are used as binder since they have a rather high viscosity in solution and good binding properties. If proper amount of maltodextrin powder is added to solid granules or ball candies or white-sugar rice cakes, molding rate is increased and work efficiency is improved.
- Maltodextrins are used as stabilizers since they belong to large numerator saccharide, high viscidity and high foam stability. Therefore, it can be used as foam stabilizer in beer making and gas liquor making.
Properties
- Odor
- Neutral
- Appearance
- White without the impurity that can be seen by eye
- Taste
- No sweet or light sweetness
- Specifications
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Moisture Content | max. 6 | % | - |
| pH Value | 4.5 - 6.5 | - | - |
| DE Value | 5 - 40 | % | - |
| Solubility | min. 98 | % | - |
| Iodine experiment | Not changing blue | - | - |
| Sulfated Ash | max. 0.6 | % | - |
| Sulphur dioxide | max. 40 | ppm | - |
| Lead Content | max. 0.5 | ppm | - |
| Arsenic (As) Content | max. 0.5 | ppm | - |
| Total plate count | max. 1000 | cfu/g | - |
| Coliforms | max. 30 | MPN/100g | - |