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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 1986
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1985
Gary A Zwiercan, Knutsford, GB;
Norman L Lacourse, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Julianne M Lenchin, Cranbury, NJ (US);
National Starch and Chemical Corporation, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Abstract
An imitation cheese product which is functionally equivalent to a caseinate-based imitation cheese product, contains pregelatinized modified high amylose starches, preferably converted and/or derivatized, as partial or total replacement for the caseinate present in the cheese. Suitable converted starches include fluidity starches prepared by acid- or enzyme-conversion, oxidized starch prepared by treatment with less than 5% active chlorine, and dextrins having a calcium chloride water fluidity of less than about 50. Suitable derivatives are prepared by treatment with up to 25% propylene oxide, 5% succinic anhydride, and 10% octenylsuccinic anhydride or with a sufficient amount of acetic anhydride or sodium or potassium ortho or tripolyphosphate to provide a maximum of 6% bound acetyl or 0.8% bound phosphate. Mixtures of modified or unmodified high amylose starches with up to 80% by weight of other starches (0-40% amylose) are also suitable. In a preferred embodiment, the cheese is an imitation mozzarella cheese substantially equivalent to the caseinate-based imitation cheese in all properties.