This talk presents a 37-year retrospective on the applications of Slade/Levine’s ‘Food Polymer Science’ approach to the practice of industrial R&D, leading to U.S. patent estates based on fundamental starch science and technology. The areas of patents and patented technologies reviewed here include: a) soft-from-the-freezer ice creams and freezer-storage-stable frozen bread dough products, based on ‘cryostabilization technology’ of frozen foods, utilizing commercial starch hydrolysis products (SHPs); b) glassy-matrix encapsulation technology for flavors and other volatiles, based on structure-function relationships for commercial SHPs; c) production of stabilized whole-grain wheat flours for biscuit products, based on the application of ‘solvent retention capacity’ technology to develop flours with reduced damaged starch; d) production of improved-quality, low-moisture cookies and crackers, based on pentosanase enzyme technology; e) production of ‘baked-not-fried’, chip-like, starch-based snack products, based on the use of commercial modified-starch ingredients with selected functionality; f) accelerated staling of a starch-based food product from baked bread crumb, based on the kinetics of starch retrogradation, treated as a crystallization process for a partially crystalline glassy polymer system; and g) a process for producing an enzyme-resistant starch, for use as a reduced-calorie flour replacer in a wide range of grain-based food products, including cookies, extruded expanded snacks, and breakfast cereals.

37-year retrospective on Slade/Levine's 'Food Polymer Science' approach to the practice of industrial R&D, leading to U.S. patent estates based on fundamental starch science and technology

255th National Meeting (2018)

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