Microcrystalline Cellulose

Food Stabilisers, Thickeners and Gelling Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 218-236

  Tuason, Domingo C ^a   Krawczyk, Gregory R ^a   Buliga, Greg ^a  

^a FMC CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Colloidal MCC process; Colloidal MCC product line extensions; Cooking purified pulp with dilute mineral acid in water; Legislation and nutrition MCC, 'generally recognized as safe' (GRAS) status; MCC product technologies; MCC technology used in manufacture of reduced fat processed cheese slices and blocks; Microcrystalline cellulose; Microcrystalline cellulose (MCC); Microcrystalline cellulose purified cellulose; Three dimensional gel network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855672082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314724.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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