Ulrick & Short Develops New Applications for Rice Starches

17 May 2013 --- Ulrick & Short Ltd, British owned clean label starch specialist, has announced a number of new applications for its innovative range of gluten-free, non-GM rice starches.

It’s no secret that rice starch is a natural and versatile ingredient, providing a clean, smooth mouth-feel and good stabilisation qualities for desserts and yogurts. Ulrick & Short has now proven the success of its highly functional rice starches in various applications, adding yet another crop to the range complimenting the functions and textures available from wheat, tapioca and waxy maize.

These robust starches enable the improvement in texture and process tolerance in a wide selection of foods with absolutely no detriment to quality – even enhancing the consumer experience. Rice starches are especially useful for cleaning up labels, improving customer perception of natural ingredients whilst also providing non-allergenic digestive qualities to meet the growing demands of the ‘free from’ sector.

Ulrick & Short director, Adrian Short, explained: “In the past year our rice starches have really come into their own as food manufacturers across many sectors realise their significant benefits. Although they can of course be declared as starches, rice derivatives don’t always behave in a way that a food technologist might expect, which is where our extensive expertise in advanced formulation technologies comes in.”

“Ulrick & Short works side-by-side with household name manufacturers to maximise the considerable features and benefits of rice starches, not least their impressive textural qualities including enhanced mouth-feel, extra body and creaminess. Rice starches have proven the perfect complement to our core range of wheat, tapioca and corn starches on which the company’s success was founded.”

Clean label wheat starches compliment flours, fortifying their functionality and helping to moisten or lighten an existing cake or patisserie recipe. Most commonly used as replacement ingredients in baked goods such as breads, cakes and wafers, Ulrick & Short’s wheat starches enhance dough and batter viscosity whilst providing an essential clean label and non-GM solution for both hot and cold food products.

Ulrick & Short is the leading British-owned starch specialist, supplying household name food manufacturers across the world with naturally gluten-free non-GM ingredients, and innovating across a diverse range of food industry sectors including bakery, meat, dairy, soups and sauces. The company has a team of dedicated sector specialists and food technologists based in Yorkshire and works hand in hand with customers to maximise value from product development.