A E Staley Manufacturing Company

Austin Harry Young

Robert V Schanefelt

Donald W Harris

William F Lehnhardt

Jeanette A Little

Frank Verbanac

Cheryl C Brown

Kent R Anderson

Zbigniew J Witczak

Helen D Coontz

Lori A Slowinski

Ruth G Chiou

Michael J Sullivan

Keith D Stanley

Eugene F Douglass

Carolyn J Hamdan

Jody A Wolf-Rueff

A food formulation having a reduced level of fat and/or oil is provided. The food formulation is a mixture of a foodstuff and a fragmented, amylopectin starch hydrolysate as a replacement for at least a substantial portion of the fat and/or oil of said food formulation. The fragmented starch hydrolysate is capable of forming an aqueous dispersion at about 20% hydrolysate solids exhibiting a yield stress of from about 100 to about 1,500 pascals. Also provided is a method of formulating a food containing a fat and/or oil ingredient comprising replacing at least a portion of said fat and/or oil ingredient with the fragmented, amylopectin starch hydrolysate. Examples of food formulations include those for margarine, salad dressings (pourable and spoonable), frostings, and frozen novelties.

Method of preparing reduced fat foods

Saccharides having pendant ethylenically unsaturated groups covalently bonded thereto are employed as coupling agents in filled and/or reinforced polymer compositions. Said saccharide is applied to the surface of a particulate or fibrous filler and/or reinforcing material and the resulting saccharide-coated filler and/or reinforcing material is intimately mixed with the polymer material to be filled and/or reinforced thereby.

Process for producing filled or reinforced polymer compositions

Water-absorbent, starch copolymerizates are prepared by copolymerizing an ethylenically unsaturated starch with other ethylenically unsaturated monomers which contain water-attractant groups or precursors of water-attractant groups. The water-absorbent starch copolymerizates may be easily prepared into the desired configuration for a particular end-use or combined with other substrates or carriers. The unpolymerized starch and monomers or precursors thereof may be applied or incorporated into a suitable carrier or substrate (e.g., cellulosic materials such as textiles, papers, etc.) and copolymerized in situ to provide a composite article of unitary construction with the water-absorbent starch copolymerizate permanently bonded or affixed thereto.

Water-absorbent starch copolymerizates

Preformed, homogeneous, non-linear starch copolymerizate articles may be prepared by copolymerizing a preformed, homogeneous mixture of water, ethylenically unsaturated starch and ethylenically unsaturated monomers to provide a labyrinth of copolymerized starch chains interconnected with each other by the copolymerized monomeric units. The invention is particularly suitable for preparing high-binder, aqueous coating compositions which may be applied to a variety of substrates and subsequently copolymerized with polymerization initiating systems. Improved water- and detergent-resistance may be obtained by incorporating film-forming additives, cross-linking reagents or polyunsaturated compounds into the copolymerizable starch composition.

Copolymerized starch composition

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