Enhanced TDS
Knowde-enriched technical product data sheet
Identification & Functionality
- Ingredient Name
- Ingredient Origin
- Ingredients
- Maize
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
- Labeling Claims
- Food Ingredients Features
- Applications
Maize is a major source of starch. Cornstarch (maize flour) is a major ingredient in home cooking and in many industrialized food products. Maize is also a major source of cooking oil (corn oil) and of maize gluten. Maize starch can be hydrolyzed and enzymatically treated to produce syrups, particularly high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener; and also fermented and distilled to produce grain alcohol. Starch from maize can also be made into plastics, fabrics, adhesives, and many other chemical products.
Maize makes a greater quantity of epigeous mass than other cereal plants, so can be used for fodder. Digestibility and palatability are higher when ensiled and fermented, rather than dried.
Applications & Uses
Properties
- Specifications
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Foreign Matter | max. 2 | % | - |
| Weevils Seeds | max. 3 | % | - |
| Moisture Content | max. 14 | % | - |
| Damaged and Broken Seeds | max. 3 | % | - |
| Discolored Seeds | max. 2 | % | - |
| Aflatoxin | max. 50 | ppb | - |
| Broken Kernels | max. 2 | % | - |
| Admixture and Other Food Grains | max. 2 | % | - |
| Damaged Kernels (Insect Damaged/Immature/Discolored) | max. 5 | % | - |