Patents Assigned to Cooperative Verkoop-en Productievereniging van Aardappelmeel en Derivaten AVEBE B.A.
  • Amylopectin potato flakes or granules and their use in snack foods
    Patent number: 7553508
    Abstract: Snack foods are prepared, at least in part, from potato flakes and/or potato granules which are derivable from potatoes in which the starch has a higher than normal amylopectin content, for example, waxy potatoes. The snack foods have improved texture and appearance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: Cooperative Verkoop-en Productievereniging van Aardappelmeel en Derivaten AVEBE B.A.
    Inventors: Andrew Richard Wainwright, Alexander Thomas Paul, Fiona Jane Scriven, Lisa Bates
  • Oxidation of starch
    Patent number: 6822091
    Abstract: The invention relates a process of oxidizing starch wherein a root or tuber starch comprising at least 95 wt. % based on dry substance of the starch amylopectin, or a derivative therof, is treated with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a catalyst, which catalyst comprises divalent copper ions. The present invention further relates to an oxidizable starch obtainable by a process comprising treating a starch with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a catalyst, which catalyst comprises divalent copper ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Cooperative Verkoop-en Productievereniging van Aardappelmeel en Derivaten AVEBE B.A.
    Inventors: Ronald Peter W. Kesselmans, Ido Pieter Bleeker
  • Salt-stable modified starch
    Patent number: 6821548
    Abstract: The invention relates to starch used in the food-industry. The invention provides modified starch, and derivatives derived thereof, having improved salt-stability (salt-stable starch), use of such modified starch or derivatives derived from said starch in foodstuff, a method for providing salt-stability to foodstuff comprising use of such modified starch or derivatives derived from said starch and foodstuff comprising said modified starch or derivatives derived from said starch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: Cooperative Verkoop-en Productievereniging van Aardappelmeel en Derivaten AVEBE B.A.
    Inventors: Pieter Lykle Buwalda, Heine Roelf Meima, Charles James Brine
  • Process for preparing chain-extended starch
    Patent number: 5405449
    Abstract: According to the invention, chain-extended starch is prepared in that starch is polymerized in an aqueous solution at pH 6.0-8.3 by means of glucosyl fluoride in the presence of inorganic phosphate, sucrose phosphorylase and potato phosphorylase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Assignee: Cooperative Verkoop-en Productievereniging van Aardappelmeel en Derivaten AVEBE B.A.
    Inventors: Kornelis F. Gotlieb, Peter M. Bruinenberg, Johannes B. Schotting, Doede J. Binnema