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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
David P Huang, Bound Brook, NJ (US);
Roger Jeffcoat, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
William R Mason, Somerville, NJ (US);
Assignee:
National Starch and Chemical Investment Holding Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426578 ; 426658 ; 426804 ; 426661 ;
Abstract
A non-gelling starch having good freeze-thaw stability and good mouthfeel making it suitable for use as a food additive is provided by selected waxy starch which has greater than 30% by weight of short chains with a DP of less than 13 and has been converted to a WF of from about 10 to 80, preferably 20 to 45. Particularly useful waxy starches are a hybrid waxy starch from a plant of wxsu2 genotype, waxy rice, waxy barley and amaranth.