VEGE-COAT Product Code: VEGE-COAT

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Introduction
VEGE-COAT is a edible coating produced by combining the maize protein, zein, with other ingredients. VEGE-COAT can significantly extend the shelf life of nut meats, prevent stickiness of licorice pieces, and coat nutritional supplements and pharmaceutical tablets. The coating forms a shiny, transparent, elastic, film around food particulates, providing aesthetic and barrier qualities to ensure the maintenance of desirable flavor and texture.

Benefits
The key benefits of VEGE-COAT
· Coating derived of vegetable source
· Produces non-greasy, transparent, shiny film
· Reduces oxidative staling and microbial growth
· Coating application is simple single step process     
· A variety of application techniques
· Easily digested and is nutritionally beneficial
· Fast drying and prevents pieces sticking together

Advantages
VEGE-COAT is digestible and nutritious because it is based on maize protein with other ingredients. VEGE-COAT does not continue to harden as time passes. VEGE-COAT coating dries rapidly to a strong, transparent, shiny film which absorbs ultraviolet light and prevent microbial growth. VEGE-COAT is labeled as a maize protein coating or maize protein glaze.


Applications
Panned candies such as jellies, licorice pieces, or buttercreams can be easily coated with VEGE-COAT liquid to provide a shiny surface seal to prevent pieces sticking together. Coating with VEGE-COAT has the advantages of being a simple, single-step coating process and of being very rapidly drying. No gum arabic pre-coating step is required.

VEGE-COAT can also be sprayed on granules such as citric acid or fiber powders using batch fluid bed coating equipment to provide delayed solubility or to limit water uptake properties. Alcohol solubilized VEGE-COAT can also be sprayed on nutritional supplement tablets in the panning process as a barrier coating.



Zein Protein
The zein protein in VEGE-COAT is a unique maize protein material derived from maize gluten meal. Insoluble in water and soluble in alcohol, Zein is the preffered coating for nuts and confectionary products. VEGE-COAT has outstanding film-forming and adhesive characteristics. Liquid VEGE-COAT can be applied by dipping, misting, spraying, standard panning, or other coating methods.

Reduction of Oxidative Staling
Research with nut meats, such as pecans, has shown that hydrolytic and oxidative staling can be significantly reduced by coating with 0.5-1.0% VEGE-COAT. Oxidative degeneration is the most common cause of the destruction of nut flavors. Pecans with 70% oil content are especially susceptible to development of rancidity in storage. Storage tests with uncoated pecans held at room temperature (21°C.), 50% relative humidity, and in normal indoor light resulted in flavor degeneration and chewiness after one month. Coated with 1% VEGE-COAT, a sample of Pecans, similarly stored, was fresh and crisp three months after initiation of the tests. One year after initiation of the storage test, the peroxide value of the VEGE-COAT coated sample was 6.9 while the peroxide value of the uncoated sample was 15.1.


Reconstituting VEGE-COAT
For instructions on reconstituting a VEGE-COAT sample. Please contact Garuda International Inc. at +1(559) 594-4380 or by email at garudainfo@garudaint.com



Revision Date: 10/29/2004

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This product is not meant to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.