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Article: Experts warm to Ulrick & Short's tapioca innovation.(Ingredients)
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- Food Trade Review
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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Ulrick & Short Ltd, a clean label ingredients specialist, is reviving a renowned traditional staple food by successfully developing clean label tapioca derived ingredients that can replace waxy maize starches and fat.
Tapioca has been around for centuries as a gluten-free food and as a thickening agent but has been criticised for its relatively high processing costs. Because of this, the food industry has favoured waxy maize starches.
Recognising this tremendous potential over nine years ago, Ulrick & Short has since launched more than 30 different highly functional clean label ingredients all produced from tapioca.
The company achieved this by ...