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10 things you did not know about potato starch
Every year, Tereos processes and extracts the starch from an average of 500,000 tons of potatoes.
- Potato starch is the general name for the starch extracted from tubers and roots like potatoes or cassavas.
- Five tons of potatoes are required to produce one ton of starch.
- Potato starch has many culinary uses: besides its nutritional and energy values, it is used to bind, thicken, texturize, stabilize, and gel food… all without affecting the taste!
- Potato starch is naturally gluten-free and helps regulate blood sugar levels.
- It can be found, for example, in snack food to provide more crispiness, in sauces to provide more creaminess, and it gives elasticity and transparency to noodles in Asia!
- It is also used in the paper industry as a whitener, in cosmetics, biodegradable plastic bags, and in the perfumes and aromas that go into our daily products.
- Over twenty years, Tereos has become the third biggest player in the European starch market and one of the largest processors of cereals and starch potatoes in France.
- Tereos’ potato starch is produced at Haussimont in Marne, France. Since taking over this potato starch mill in 2014, Tereos has invested €25 million to adapt its industrial tools.
- At Haussimont, a campaign lasts an average of 200 days and involves 550 cooperative growers.
- Tereos promotes a circular economy: in addition to potato starch production, the potato also produces pulp for animal nutrition and a natural fertilizer called “protamylase”. In addition, the water recovered during the processing operation is then reused to spray the fields.
