Cassava, the Next Corn for Starch Sweeteners

Shetty, Jay K.; Strohm, Bruce A.; Lee, Sung-Ho; Duan, Gang; Bates, David

Cassava, the Next Corn for Starch Sweeteners

2014

Shetty, Jay K. | Strohm, Bruce A. | Lee, Sung-Ho | Duan, Gang | Bates, David

Cassava, also known as tapioca, is grown for its enlarged starch-filled roots in Nigeria, Thailand, Brazil, Zaire, and Indonesia, and production is continuing to increase in Africa and Asia. Currently, Southeast Asia is the leading producer of cassava for industrial uses and trade. As high-quality cassava starch becomes increasingly available, its utilization as a replacement for sugar via enzymatic hydrolysis to sweeteners will offer local producers an opportunity for economic advancement and improved standard of living. Knowledge gained from the processing of starch from maize and wheat can be applied to cassava processing. Improvements to existing processes would be needed, however, as cassava has lower amylose content and lower impurities such as lipids and proteins compared to other plants.

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AGROVOC Keywords

amylose biotechnology brazil cassava democratic republic of the congo enzymatic hydrolysis high fructose corn syrup indonesia lipids nigeria proteins roots sugars sweeteners tapioca thailand trade united nations conference on trade and development wheat

Bibliographic information

Published in

Industrial biotechnology

Volume 10 Issue 4 Pagination 275 - 284 ISSN 1931-8421

Publisher

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Other Subjects

Direct starch to maltose (dstm); Scanning electron microscopy (sem); Dextrose equivalent (de); Alpha amylase (aa); Immobilized glucose isomerase (igi); Dutch agricultural development and trading co (dadtco); Autonomous mobile processing unit (ampu); Dry basis (db); Direct starch to glucose (dstg); Granular starch hydrolyzing enzyme (gshe); Corn; Federal institute of industrial research oshodi (fiiro); High fructose syrup; High quality cassava flour (hqcf); Glucoamylase (ga); Cassava mechanization and agro-processing project (camap)

Language

English

Type

Journal Article; Text

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DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ind.2014.0010

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