As always at the end of January and early February we are preparing for BioFach. I suppose it is the same for everyone in the organic food industry. For us it means that we are preparing a totally new brochure for Organic Potato Starch adding a few pages with recipes and more application info, updating…
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The Nature of Potato Starch
Starch consists of granules. The granules often have the same shape as the raw material. The potato starch granules have potato shape and banana starch granules – banana shape. Potato starch has a characteristic look in the microscope. The granules are oval and much bigger than the starch granules from other plants. In polarized light, you…
Organic potato starch – is there enough and where does it come from?
A growing organic market with limited supply In a growing market like organic food – which is transforming itself from a very small niche into a part of the mainstream – supply issues are a little different. The organic market has grown 10% year-on-year for several decades now and the main food trends seem to…
Organic potato starch for Gluten-free products
The gluten-free market hasn’t been only about celiac for a long time. Increasingly consumers buy gluten-free products for perceived health benefits or weight management. Increasingly there is also a demand for organic gluten-free products especially for this broader group of health conscious non-celiac consumers. Europe is the largest gluten-free market but North America is the…
The BioFach show for organic products in Nuremberg, Germany 10.-13.2.2016
Please come and discuss with us the possibilities that organic native and pre-gelatinised potato starch offer to your organic product development. Organic Potato Starch We are convinced that organic potato starch is your best option whenever you need starch or hydrocolloids in your food applications. Come and meet us to hear why. Developing organic food…
Food from Finland – joint stand at BioFach
7 companies from Finland, including Finnamyl Ltd @ organicpotatostarch,com and Fazer Mill&Mixes will be exhibiting at BioFach 2015 under the Food from Finland banner. Read more about it @ organic-market.info.
Meet organicpotatostarch.com at HIE, Amsterdam!
Health Ingredients Europe 2.-4. December 2014 You will find us at HI Europe in Amsterdam on our stand K43 in the Organic Pavilion. Organic Potato Starch We are convinced that organic potato starch is your best option whenever you need starch in your organic food applications. Come and meet us to hear why. Developing organic…
Starches as alternative to some additives
Consumers expect organic products to contain additives as little as possible or none at all. The organic standards allow for using a limited number of additives but in most cases it is worth considering if even those could be avoided. Also manufacturers of conventional food are increasingly meeting the same challenges as consumers are more…
Who invented potato starch?
While visiting Natural Products Expo in Anaheim a few weeks ago the book 1493 by Charles C. Mann was recommended to me by a friend. I found it at the airport book store and finished the 680 page book within a week – much of it during the inter-continental flight back to Europe. It makes…
BioFach 2013 Mini-Seminar on potato starch applications
At BioFach we will arrange a mini-seminar focusing on potato starch applications in food industry. Time: Wednesday 13th February at 12.00 Place: BIOFACH; Room Mailand, NCC Mitte Who should attend: Product developers, Quality Managers, Buyers PROGRAM: Mr Ossi Paakki; CEO Finnamyl Ltd, Finland: Cultivation of organic starch potatoes in Finland and Latvia. Mr Janis Garancs;…