Alpha Pregelatinized Starch in eel feed, offers several benefits in eel feed formulations. It provides easily digestible carbohydrates, ensuring optimal energy utilization while being gentle on the eels’ digestive systems. With its binding properties and ability to improve texture and palatability, tapioca starch helps in creating consistent, appealing feed pellets. Moreover, its cost-effectiveness and reduced environmental impact make it an attractive choice for eel farming operations. Overall, tapioca starch contributes to improved growth rates, health, and performance of eels in aquaculture settings.
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Alpha tapioca starch is a specific type of starch derived from the cassava plant, also known as tapioca. It is characterized by its molecular structure, consisting mainly of alpha-glucose molecules linked together in a linear arrangement. This structure makes alpha tapioca starch highly digestible and easily metabolized by organisms such as eels. It is commonly used in various industries, including food processing, due to its thickening, binding, and stabilizing properties. In eel feed formulations, alpha tapioca starch serves as a source of easily digestible carbohydrates, providing energy and promoting optimal growth and health.
One investigated approach in alpha starch is property modification via physical treatments, that is, modifications of starches imparted by physical treatments that do not result in any chemical modification of the starch. Physical treatment is thermal treatments. Thermal treatments include those that produce pregelatinized and granular cold-water-swelling starches, heat-moisture treatments, annealing, microwave heating, so-called osmotic pressure treatment, and heating of dry starch.
Alpha Pregelatinized Starch low gelatinization temperature is soluble in normal water at 10-12 degrees Celsius, and can be dissolved in cold water. This is the reason why we should use Alpha Pregelatinized Starch in fish feed
It is a fine white powder with a larger particle size than other denatured types such as E1422, E1412, etc. α Starch has a lower viscosity than other modified grades
| Item | Test parameter | Unit | Specifications Min Max | Test method |
| 1 | Starch | % | 90.0 – | ISO 10520:1997 |
| 2 | Moisture | % | – 13.0 | ISO 1666:1996 |
| 3 | Viscosity | mPa.s | 10000 – | 5 % NDJ-1 |
| 4 | Fineness through the sieve of 140 mesh | % | 99.0 – | TCVN 4828-1:2009 |
| 5 | Whiteness | % | 90.0 – | YQ-Z-48B (Standard) |
| 6 | Ash | % | – 0.2 | AOAC 923.03 |
| 7 | (Impurity | % | – 0.1 | TCVN 4587-88 |
| 8 | Fiber | % | – 0.2 | TCVN 4998:1989 |
| 9 | pH | – | 5.0 7.0 | AOAC 943.02 |
| 10 | SO2 | mg/kg | – 10 | AOAC 990.28 |
Benefit of Alpha Pregelatinized Starch in eel feed.
Alpha pregelatinized starch in fish feed offers several benefits in formulations as bellow:
The use of alpha pregelatinized starch in eel feed can contribute to improved feed performance, better growth rates, and enhanced profitability for eel farming operations.
