DRIVING COST EFFICIENCY WITH FSL-CARGILL MODIFIED STARCHES

With ongoing geopolitical and economic pressures, the need for reliable, cost-effective ingredients is paramount. Modified starches, derived from botanical sources such as maize, waxy maize, and tapioca, are versatile ingredients offering functionalities ranging from thickening to gelling, bulking, and emulsifying.

Leveraging its global scale and expertise, FSL-Cargill has developed innovative modified starch solutions to bridge these challenges, offering long-term reformulation options with cost savings and texture enhancements.

Features & Benefits:
  • Bakery and Fillings: Batter stabilisation, enables shelf-life extension by improving freshness, bakery fillings with a range of textures, improve gloss and shininess, suitable for bake stable applications, improves authentic pulpy texture of fruit fillings, offers both hot and cold preparation (cook up and instant).
  • Confectionery: Wide range of gelled textures for moulding and coatings, can provide clear as well as opaque solutions and vegetarian and vegan-friendly applications.
  • Dairy and Plant-Based Alternatives: Viscosity and texture improvements under various processing conditions, enhanced creaminess and clean taste profiles, improves shredding, stretching and melting for cheese applications and best solutions for fat and casein replacement.

  • Culinary: Improves body and mouthfeel for sauces, dips and dressings, excellent cold storage stability for ready meals and enhances stability in high-shear and acidic cooking conditions.
  • Meat & Plant-Based Alternatives to Meat: Helps to provide crispy, crunchy batters and coatings, enhanced shape retention, improves water-binding properties, freeze-thaw stability and emulsification stability for plant-based formulations.
  • Beverages & Specialized Nutrition: Texture enhancement through pulpiness or creaminess and improves cold storage stability for emulsions to ensure consistent performance.

Amid evolving agricultural conditions impacting waxy corn availability, FSL & Cargill’s global capabilities have ensured a consistent and reliable supply while maintaining cost efficiency. This range of starches are designed to support manufacturers in navigating supply chain complexities with confidence and ease.

Explore how our modified starches can strengthen your supply chain and stabilize costs by reaching out to us at bcs@foodspecialities.com.