Clean-Label Starches Offer Enhanced Performance

Sept. 13, 2012
American Key Food Products now offers its Empure line of potato- and pea-derived starches to the North American market.
American Key Food Products, in conjunction with the Emsland Group, will now offer a line of clean-label starches to food processors. Empure is a line of potato- and pea-derived starches that are manufactured through physical modification. Applications range from snacks and baked goods to fruit fillings, soup mixes, puddings and ketchup.According to a release, the line "offers enhanced properties that surpass the functional characteristics of native starches without using chemical modification."  The starches include cook-up (Empure KS 100/200 and ES 100/200) and cold-swelling (KJEL 100/200/300/400 and EJEL 100)