{"id":6946,"date":"2015-02-25T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=6946"},"modified":"2015-02-25T13:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T18:00:30","slug":"maltodextrins-update-to-vegetarian-resource-group-ingredient-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/25\/maltodextrins-update-to-vegetarian-resource-group-ingredient-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Maltodextrins &#8212; UPDATE TO VEGETARIAN RESOURCE GROUP INGREDIENT GUIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeanne Yacoubou, MS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commercial source<\/strong>: corn starch<br \/>\n<strong>Used in<\/strong>: powdered mixes, soups, canned fruits, beverages, cereal, confections, baked goods, snacks, prepared foods, infant formula, ice cream, frozen desserts, canned fruit, jams and jellies<br \/>\n<strong>Used as<\/strong>: powder carrier, texturizer, bulking agent, crystallization<br \/>\ninhibitor, sweetener, fermentation substrate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition<\/strong>: Maltodextrins consist of variably long linkages of glucose<br \/>\nmolecules and are less than 20% as sweet as sucrose (table sugar).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Manufacturers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adm.com\/en-us\/products\/food\/sweeteners\/Pages\/default.aspx\">ADM<\/a> reported that their maltodextrins are not made with animal ingredients or processing aids.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tateandlyle.com\/ingredientsandservices\/chooseaningredientorservice\/europemiddleeastandafrica\/pages\/maltodextrinsanddriedglucosesyrups.aspx \">Tate and Lyle<\/a> stated that they use no animal ingredients or processing<br \/>\naids in maltodextrin manufacture.<\/p>\n<p>Despite many attempts by email and phone to several people, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cargillfoodingredients.com\/assets\/productfile\/maltodextrin%20(Sell%20Sheet).pdf\">Cargill<\/a> told The VRG that they only respond to customer questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roquette-food.com\/glucidex-maltodextrin-glucose-syrup-texturizer-powder-drinks\/\">Roquette<\/a> did not return our calls or emails for more information on their maltodextrins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Classification<\/strong>: Vegan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Entry added<\/strong>: February 2015<\/p>\n<p>For more ingredient entries, see:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/ingredients\/index.php\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/ingredients\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To support VRG go to: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givedirect.org\/give\/givefrm.asp?CID=1565\">www.vrg.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To Join The Vegetarian Resource Group, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/\">http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The contents of this posting, our website and our other publications, including Vegetarian Journal, are not intended to provide personal medical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. We often depend on product and ingredient information from company statements. It is impossible to be 100% sure about a statement, info can change, people have different views, and mistakes can be made. Please use your best judgement about whether a product is suitable for you. To be sure, do further research or confirmation on your own.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeanne Yacoubou, MS Commercial source: corn starch Used in: powdered mixes, soups, canned fruits, beverages, cereal, confections, baked goods, snacks, prepared foods, infant formula, ice cream, frozen desserts, canned fruit, jams and jellies Used as: powder carrier, texturizer, bulking agent, crystallization inhibitor, sweetener, fermentation substrate Definition: Maltodextrins consist of variably long linkages of glucose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6948,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6946\/revisions\/6948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}