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Amygluten - Vital Wheat Gluten

Amygluten - Vital Wheat Gluten is an insoluble functional protein, which displays unique visco-elastic properties, resulting from the balance between elasticity (linked to glutenin content) and extensibility (linked to gliadin content). Visco-elastic behavior of vital wheat gluten in presence of water is gives the product strong aggregation, and a water absorption capacity of absorption of 1.5 to 2 times its own weight of water. This product can be applied in breakfast cereals, snacks, and vegetarian food. Vital wheat gluten is commonly used for flour fortification & standardization, and added in special bakery products. It is also used in pasta, breakfast cereals, extruded snacks, processed meat products, vegetarian products, blends, fermented sauces, seasonings.

Company

Tereos manufactures native and modified starches, dry and liquid sweeteners, polyols, fibres, wheat proteins, alcohol, and co-products for animal nutrition for the Food and Beverage Industry. Tereos processes maize, wheat, potato and cassava to manufacture a wide range of value added products in compliance with the current and future requirements of the food and beverage industry. Tereos is a major European producer of starch and derivatives (liquid sweeteners, dextrose, maltodextrins and dried glucose, sorbitol, maltitol), vital wheat gluten, soluble wheat proteins and alcohol.

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