ATCHISON, Kan., May 7, 2014—Looking for a highly functional, cost effective replacement for egg whites in your product formulations? MGP offers superb alternatives that can meet your requirements.
The Company's Arise® 6000 and Arise® 8000 wheat protein isolates provide many advantages and are especially ideal for inclusion in flour-based products such as pasta and noodles, bread, coatings and pre-dusting agents.
“These high performance ingredients offer great solutions for creating products that possess enhanced protein quantity and quality,” said Mike Lasater, vice president of ingredients sales and marketing. “They additionally contain many outstanding functional properties that result in processing benefits and help deliver total product satisfaction.”
Arise 6000 possesses minimum protein of 85% (N x 6.25, dry basis) and demonstrates exceptional elastic properties. Effective in increasing the firmness of pasta, it also increases dough extensibility, water absorption, bread loaf volume and crumb firmness, while decreasing dough mix time.
A study conducted at North Dakota State University demonstrated that the inclusion of Arise 6000 had a positive effect on the firmness of retorted spaghetti. Tested at 2% and 4% fortification levels, Arise 6000 showed a 28.1% and 78.3% increase, respectively, in firmness over control samples. Arise 6000 can be used as a cost-effective replacement for egg white powder in retorted pasta that, depending on usage levels and calculated on a percentage basis, currently provides the potential for double digit ingredient savings. Comparable savings opportunities apply as well to other product applications.
Arise 8000, which features similar benefits, averages a minimum 94% protein (N x 6.25, dry basis). This newest addition to MGP's Arise family of protein isolates also shows enhanced mixing capabilities, along with high viscoelastic properties. Because Arise 8000 is unmodified, it can be labeled "natural."
Additional details regarding MGP’s Arise wheat protein isolates and their use as partial egg white replacers, plus recommended applications can be obtained at mgpingredients.com/innovation/arise/, or by calling 866.547.2122.
About MGP Ingredients
MGP processes grain-based starches and proteins into nutritional and highly functional ingredients for the branded consumer packaged goods industry. The company is also a leading independent supplier of premium spirits, offering flavor innovations and custom distillery blends to the beverage alcohol industry, as well as high quality food grade industrial alcohol for a wide range of product applications. The Company is headquartered in Atchison, Kansas, where it also has facilities for the production of distilled spirits and food ingredients. Distilled spirits are additionally produced at the Company’s facility in Lawrenceburg, Indiana.