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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2004
Kazuhiro Obae, Nobeoka, JP;
Ichirou Ibuki, Nobeoka, JP;
Michihiro Sunago, Haibara, JP;
Junichi Takahara, Kashiba, JP;
Masaaki Endo, Nobeoka, JP;
Kazuhiro Obae, Nobeoka, JP;
Ichirou Ibuki, Nobeoka, JP;
Michihiro Sunago, Haibara, JP;
Junichi Takahara, Kashiba, JP;
Masaaki Endo, Nobeoka, JP;
ASAHI KASEI CHEMICALS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
SANWA CORNSTARCH CO., LTD., Nara, JP;
Abstract
Functional starch powder of 400% or more water retention capacity, 5 hr or more collapse time and 200 g or more gel indentation load. This functional starch powder is produced through the step of heating a starch raw material in the presence of water at 60 to 150° C. so as to swell starch particles of the starch raw material and the subsequent step of drying the thus swollen starch particles so as to obtain a powder mixture comprising starch particles and, lying in the exterior thereof, amylose and amylopectin.