Like other commercial starches, maize starch has a great many uses. They include domestic use as food in puddings, soup and gravy thickeners, as cold or hot water laundry starch, as a preferential water absorber in ...

Cocoa and chocolate are favourites all over the world and full of nutritional value. Obtained from cacao, a tree of the tropics, the cocoa-beans contain most of the substances required for human nutrition: approx. 50% ...

Pasta can best be defined as the generic term for a class of products made by forming unleavened dough into a variety of shapes and drying them from 28-30% to 12-13% moisture. Pasta products have been known in Europe for ...

Generally coffee processing is separated into processing in the producer countries and processing in the consumer countries. In the producing countries the coffee is grown and prepared for export as green coffee beans. ...

Pineapples are an important export product in many countries and well liked as a delicacy in those countries that do not have a warm climate the year round and therefore are less fortunate in their fruit-supply. ...

For many years starch and starch containing materials have been converted by means of high temperatures in the presence of catalysts into soluble sweet products. Early in the last century it was discovered that, if ...

Legumes have been known as foodplants, apart from cereals, for a long time. In many countries great importance is attached to pulses for human consumption, especially with a view to their richness in protein. Beans, ...

Sugar cane is the oldest and cheapest source for the production of sugar. The earliest record of sugar cane cultivation in Hindu literature is about 3000 years old. Sugar cane spread slowly to Persia and then to Egypt, ...

Malt is to a substantial degree used as a raw material in the brewing process, necessitating as much as 10-17 kg malt to produce 1 hl beer based on 100% malt utilization and approx. 10-12 kg/hI beer with the addition ...

As is well-known, automobiles today play a vital role in traffic and transport in the cities as well as in out-of-the-way places throughout the world. It is said that the number of cars constitutes a barometer of the ...