The Company SPICUL SA - complex milling and bakery with a length of more than 160 years, opened the

new location of Chitila Ilfov, country Romania a gluten-rich wheat and native wheat starch factory obtaining unique in Romania and Eastern Europe.

Native wheat starch

Native wheat starch is derived from high quality wheat flour produced at our plant. Being a pure natural polymer wheat starch has a very broad range of application in various industries performing thickening, stabilizing functions as well as acting as energy source. Wheat is the most widespread source of starch in Europe. Properties of starch are determined by its granular structure, polysaccharide composition (amylose/ amylopectin ratio), amounts of non-polysaccharide components (proteins, lipids). Wheat starch is composed of three classes of granule fractions with diameter varying from small (< 1 m) to medium (4-7 m) till large (> 15 m). Due to different morphology of granules, pasting behavior/retrogradation of wheat starch while heating and cooling is quite different from that of potato starch, but matches with corn starch, which allows replacement of corn starch by wheat starch in most of food applications.

Typical uses
For its typical characteristics, wheat starch is applied as raw material in a wide range of industries, including, but not limiting to paper, corrugation, construction, textiles, chemical modification, medicine, food and feed production and many more. In food sector wheat starc h is used in the following applic ations: . Ready to use flours, mixtures for bakeries, cakes and cookies. . Glucose and confectionary industry. . Sausages, canned meat and other meat products as binding agent for water and fat. . In soups, sauces and salad dressings as a binding agent and to obtain a smooth, creamy structure of the end product. . Infant food, spread, preserves, dry spice mixes and snacks as a binding agent. . Dairy products (e.g. pudding, custard). . Beer, as a source of carbohydrate for fermentation. . Fermentation, as a medium. . In meat industry it is used as a texturizer, absorbent of water (1:2), meat replacer. It is added up to 4% of mass in the recipes. The starch is added at the end of cuttering at 10C.

Packaching

. Bulk shipments . Multiply paper sacks of 25 kg net;

For more details or any questions, please call to +40 721937850-Danut Buia-Sales Representative-SC SPICUL SA, or email to: dan.buia@spicul.ro