American Maize-products Company

American Maize Technology, Inc.

Frances L Turnak

David J Mauro

Susan L Furcsik

Eugene J Faron

Roger Owen

Leonard Kornacki

The use of a starch obtained from a plant source that is homozygous in a white recessive gene, such as white common corn starch, has superior compression and ejection forces compared to commercial disintegrantants/binders. The starch derived from common corn containing the homozygous white recessive gene was also found to have comparable whiteness to commercial bleached corn starches used in tableting.

Process for producing a pharmaceutical tablet using a homozygous white

The method for making a reduced fat foodstuff entails replacing at least a portion of the fat and/or oil in the foodstuff with a high amylose starch hydrolysate having an apparent amylose content above about 40% and a DE greater than 5 and less than 15.0. A high amylose corn starch is the preferred starch base.

Method for making a reduced fat product

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Hammond, IN, United States of America

Frances L Turnak