SEPARATION OF GLUTEN AND STARCH FROM WHEAT FLOUR

摘要

SEPARATION OF GLUTEN AND STARCH FROM WHEAT FLOUR In a process utilising a battery of hydrocyclones for separating wheat starch and gluten contained in an aqueous wheat flour slurry, the slurry is supplied to a first section of the hydrocyclone battery, in which a gluten fraction is removed as overflow, and the starch-rich fraction from such first battery section is first treated to reduce its pentosan content and is then treated in a second section of the hydrocyclone battery which delivers a concentrated starch fraction as underflow.