The ingredients supplier is acquiring an 85% shareholding in Chaodee Modified Starch Co, a tapioca modified food starch manufacturer in Thailand, to grow its texturant portfolio.
Concerns over using crickets as a sustainable alternative to meat may be eased as a study has shown that weeds and food by-products could work as single ingredients to successfully rear this insect.
Tapioca ingredient suppliers are warning of price increases this year, due to extreme weather conditions and pests in Thailand, and growing demand for non-GM starch sources.
Starch derivatives company Cerestar, recently acquired by US
agribusiness Cargill, claims this week that it has met the
challenge to develop a gum type that differs from typical gelatine
and starch gums. According to the company sales...