Abstract: An improved pasta product is made by incorporating an aedu starch, a duh starch or a mixture thereof in an amount of about 5% to about 50% by weight of farinaceous material. The pasta has improved texture and works well in retort, frozen foods, microwave foods and food service applications. The use of aedu starch and duh starch to improve the texture is also applicable to tortillas.

Abstract: The batter starch is esterified to have a degree of substitution between 0.02 to 0.1, and a protein content greater than or equal to 1.0%. The starch is obtained from a starch bearing plant of the duh homozygous genotype. Maize is the preferred source for the starch and the preferred protein source is gluten. The preferred esterification agent is acetic anhydride.

Abstract: The batter starch is esterified to have a degree of substitution between 0.02 and 0.1, and a protein content greater than or equal to 1%. The starch is obtained from a starch bearing plant of the aedu homozygous genotype. Maize is the preferred source for the starch and the preferred protein source is gluten. The preferred esterification agent is acetic anhydride.

Abstract: The method for making a reduced fat foodstuff entails replacing at least a portion of the fat and/or oil in the foodstuff with a high amylose starch hydrolysate having an apparent amylose content above about 40% and a DE greater than 5 and less than 15.0. A high amylose corn starch is the preferred starch base.

Abstract: A starch jelly candy is made from a starch jelly formulation of a starch composition of a first starch from a plant having a dull horny (duh) homozygous genotype and a second starch obtained from a plant having a homozygous genotype selected from the group consisting of amylose extender dull (aedu), amylose extender sugary-2 (aesu2), amylose extender dull shrunken-1 (aedushl), dull sugary-2 (dusu2), and mixtures thereof; a sweetener; and water. the mixture is cooked at the temperature of 240.degree. F. (116.degree. C.) instead of the conventional cooking temperature of 340.degree. F. (170.degree. C.).

Abstract: A starch jelly candy is made from starch from a plant of the dull sugary-2 (dusu2) homozygous genotype and a thin-boiled starch. The mixture is cooked at the temperature of below 300.degree. F. (150.degree. C.) instead of the conventional cooking temperature of 340.degree. F. (170.degree. C.). The starch jellies made in accordance with the present invention have substantially the same organoleptic and water retention characteristics as conventional starch jellies.

Abstract: The starch obtained from a plant having an aewx genotype acts as a thickener in foodstuffs having a low pH, 5 or below. The starch shows stability in acid foodstuff that is comparable to crosslinked waxy starch.

Abstract: The method for making a reduced fat foodstuff entails replacing at least a portion of the fat and/or oil in the foodstuff with an aqueous dispersion of a hydroxypropylated starch having a degree of substitution of above 0.04 and an apparent amylose content of about 40%. A high amylose corn starch is the preferred starch base. a paste made from the dispersion is translucent and tends not to retrograde.

Abstract: An additive for food, especially baked goods, the method of manufacture and the baked goods produced therewith are disclosed. The additive is comprised of about 8 to about 40% by weight fructose, about 45 to about 80% by weight starch hydrolysate with a DE of about 5 to about 36 and about 0.5 to about 20% by weight emulsifying agent.