Wheat Starch
Wheat Starch is the carbohydrate fraction recovered from wheat flour (Triticum aestivum) by water-based separation of the starch granules from the gluten network.
It is typically co-produced with vital wheat gluten in modern starch-gluten plants, making it the only major commercial starch with a high-value protein co-product driving the economics.
We source bulk Wheat Starch from top China manufacturers for our partners, working with several of them. The manufacturers are in Shandong, Anhui and Henan. A smaller requirement can ship in a combined container with other ingredients.
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- Packaging
- 25 kg kraft paper bag with PE inner liner
- ISO 9001
- HACCP
- Halal
- Kosher
Specifications
| Item | Specification |
|---|---|
| Appearance | White to off-white fine free-flowing powder |
| Starch Content (dry basis) | ≥ 85.0% |
| Protein (dry basis) | ≤ 0.5% (food) / ≤ 0.3% (Codex gluten-free) |
| Moisture | ≤ 14.0% |
| Ash | ≤ 0.5% |
| Fat | ≤ 0.2% |
| pH (10% slurry) | 5.5–7.0 |
| Whiteness | ≥ 90 |
| Particle Size | ≥ 98% through 100 mesh |
| Sulfur Dioxide | ≤ 30 mg/kg |
| Heavy Metals (as Pb) | ≤ 10 mg/kg |
| Lead (as Pb) | ≤ 0.5 mg/kg |
| Total Plate Count | ≤ 10,000 CFU/g |
| Yeast & Mold | ≤ 100 CFU/g |
| E. coli | Negative/g |
| Salmonella | Negative/25g |
Common Markets Grades
The trade divides Wheat Starch into food, pharmaceutical, and industrial grades.
Native food-grade wheat starch contains roughly 25 percent amylose and 75 percent amylopectin, with moisture below 14 percent and characteristic bimodal granule sizes (large A-granules 15 to 35 μm and small B-granules 2 to 10 μm).
Gluten-free certified wheat starch is washed to a residual gluten content below 20 ppm and serves the celiac-friendly bakery and clinical nutrition markets.
Pharmaceutical grade complies with the European Pharmacopoeia, USP, and JP monographs for tablet disintegrant and binder.
Industrial grades cover paper sizing and coating, corrugating adhesive, textile sizing, and gypsum board manufacture.
Applications
- Bakery applications including sponge cake, biscuit, and laminated pastry where soft crumb and clean flavour are needed
- Asian noodles, dumpling wrappers, and rice-paper analogs for transparency and bite
- Surimi and seafood-analog formulations for texture and water-holding capacity
- Gluten-free baked goods and pasta when specified at low residual gluten
- Pharmaceutical tablet disintegrant, binder, and diluent
- Clinical nutrition products for energy and texture management
- Paper sizing, coating, and corrugating adhesive
- Textile warp sizing for cotton and blended fabrics
- Gypsum board core adhesion and bond strength
Brands Using Wheat Starch
Widely-distributed consumer products that list Wheat Starch on the ingredient label.
Brand names, product names and logos are the property of their owners. They appear here as published evidence that the ingredient is used, taken from the brand's own label or website. Their appearance is not an endorsement, and it does not mean the brand buys from us or from any manufacturer listed on this site.
China Manufacturers of Wheat Starch
Top Wheat Starch manufacturers in China.
Anhui Ante Food Co., Ltd.3 ingredients in the directory
Henan Feitian Biotechnology Co., Ltd.11 ingredients in the directory
Shandong Qufeng Food Tech Co., Ltd.3 ingredients in the directory
Zaozhuang Dongliang Biotechnology Development Co., Ltd.3 ingredients in the directory
Company names and logos are the property of the manufacturers themselves. They are listed here because our own directory records them as producing this ingredient. A listing is not an endorsement by them, and we do not represent them or speak on their behalf.
How We Help Source Wheat Starch
Direct Factory Sourcing
We run the whole process: selecting the manufacturer from the top Chinese food ingredient producers, negotiating the price, verifying quality, and coordinating the logistics. You deal with us instead of with several factories at once.
Original Packaging and Documents from the Manufacturer
The manufacturer sends your Wheat Starch out of its own factory in the original packing, through to your destination port. The COA, COO, MSDS, TDS and any certifications reach you from the manufacturer as well.
Free Samples and Lead Time
We send 100 to 500 g free for your own laboratory to test and you cover only the courier, usually within 2 to 3 working days. ETD is usually within 7 to 15 days once the order is confirmed, and we check that date against the factory's own manufacturing schedule before we give it to you.
Combined Shipment
We can load Wheat Starch together with other ingredients such as Modified Starch, Corn Starch and Pea Starch into one 20' FCL. If your quantity is small, we can also ship LCL.
Regulatory Status
Wheat Starch is a food ingredient rather than a regulated additive. It does not carry an E number when sold in native form.
The U.S. FDA recognises wheat starch as GRAS. Pharmacopoeial monographs in the European Pharmacopoeia, USP, and JP cover pharmaceutical grades.
The European Pharmacopoeia monograph allows wheat starch in pharmaceutical use including products for people with celiac disease when the residual gluten content does not exceed 20 ppm.
Wheat allergen labelling is mandatory under both EU and U.S. rules. Specially processed gluten-free certified material carries the AOECS crossed-grain symbol when audited and certified.
Manufacturing Process
Wheat Starch is recovered alongside vital gluten. Wheat flour is mixed with water to form a stiff dough that develops the gluten network.
In the Martin process the dough is washed continuously with water, releasing the starch granules into a slurry while the gluten matrix is collected as a coherent mass. In the more modern Batter process and high-pressure disintegration variants, a thin batter is mechanically separated by decanter centrifuges that split gluten, A-granules, B-granules, and water-soluble pentosans.
The starch slurry is washed, dewatered, and flash-dried to specification moisture. The gluten phase is washed, dewatered, and flash-dried at low temperature to preserve the viscoelastic functionality that makes vital gluten valuable.
Major production sites operate in northern France, the Benelux, Germany, Australia, and northwest China, generally co-located with large wheat milling pools.
