Corn starch is a starch received from corn, sometimes it is also called corn flour. The endosperm – a white part of corn grain – is ground to a fine white powder. Corn starch can also become an alternative to other products and is used as a natural thickener during the food cooking. It does...
Gelatin is tasteless and has no odour. It is a crystallized powder, which is used to give thickness to dishes. By its very nature, it is an animal protein with special properties, a kind of extraction of tendons, bones, skin of animals and fish. Food gelatin is actively used by cookers around the world in...
The technology of production of fruit and vegetable powders has been developed and mastered and ensures the production of a high-quality product, which preserves all the ingredients of the raw material in a concentrated form. Fruit and vegetable powders are of high nutritional value, are easily digestible by the body, compact, can be stored for...
Extract is a concentrated extraction from plants or fruits, completely cleared of sediment. Depending on the solvent used, it can be etheric, glycerinic, alcoholic or aqueous. In addition, there are thick, liquid and dry extracts. They are actively used in cosmetics, pharmacology, etc.
Vitamins are organic substances that are characterized by intense biological activity. They differ in their structure. As they are not synthesized by the body or poorly synthesized, vitamins should come from the food.
Emulsifiers are substances that are added to the products while cooking, in order to mix normally non-intermixing components. Most often they are used to create a homogeneous mixture of fat and water. These components are present in many products, so maintaining the attractive state of such a mixture is really difficult. For this purpose different...
Pectin is a plant-derived polysaccharide, an important element in the life of plants that allows fruits and vegetables to resist drought and stay fresh for a long time without preservatives. Due to such property as viscosity, pectins have been widely used as thickeners in the medical, pharmaceutical and food industries. The main source of pectins...
Active pharmaceutical ingredient is a standardized biologically active substance (or a mixture thereof) with some therapeutic efficiency derived from synthesis, biotechnology or from human, animal, plant or mineral objects and is authorized for medical use for the purpose of manufacturing medical products.
Protein is a structural component of the body from which formed its organs and tissues. Protein is required to replace or repair damages of cells and tissues. The main building material of protein is amino acids of more than twenty types. Plant and animal proteins differ from each other by the number of essential amino...
Phosphates are chemical compounds of various metals and phosphoric acid. There is a huge variety of phosphates. The scope of their application is from the food industry to the smelting of metals and chemical synthesis.
