Clean-Label Functional Starches
for Coatings and Batters

Designed to Help You Achieve Desired Crispness and Texture

Lyckeby Careful starches help manufacturers create coatings and batters with the crispness consumers demand. These functional potato starches support better crunchiness, adhesion, and stability during processing and frying, keeping a clean-label declaration. They perform well across a range of applications, from tempura and breaded meats to French fries and snack coatings, helping deliver consistent texture and high performance under demanding processing conditions.

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Features

Made From Potato and Corn
Natural
Non-GMO
White color
Neutral taste
Cold swelling and cook-up versions
Made in Sweden

Benefits

Clean label
Pleasant texture with excellent mouthfeel
Slightly opaque white color
Excellent process and storage stability
Excellent freeze/thaw stability
Tolerant to shear, high temperature, and low pH
Can withstand UHT (Ultra-high Temperature)
Can replace allergens, synthetic ingredients
Cost-efficient
Provides viscosity in soups, yogurt, sauce, etc.

Optimized for Coatings and Batters

Lyckeby Careful starches support crispness and coating integrity across a wide range of products. These starches provide adhesion and texture development — from thin, transparent films to expanded, puffed structures — and maintain performance under harsh processing conditions and during mixing and coating.

✔Clean-label declaration
✔Excellent crisp texture
✔Reliable adhesion and coating integrity
✔Process-tolerant to high shear and heat

Ideal for Tempura and Breaded Products

Lyckeby Careful starches perform particularly well in tempura and breaded applications, where expansion, puffed texture, and consistent coating are essential. These starches help maintain coating structure during frying and freezing while keeping the ingredient label simple.

✔Light, crispy coating
✔Consistent batter coverage
✔Good freeze-thaw stability
✔Clean label; no modified starches

Lyckeby Careful Starch Benefits

Allergen-Free

Lyckeby Careful potato starches make allergen-free coatings possible, replacing allergens like gluten in French fries and potato coatings.

Replace Hydrocolloids

Lyckeby Careful coating starches can replace harmful hydrocolloids like xanthan gum and guar gum, while achieving a simple ingredient declaration on the finished product label.

Clean Label

Lyckeby Careful are functional clean label starches that deliver the same high performance as modified starches with a simple, consumer-friendly label declaration.

Achieve Desired Texture and Crispness

From light and thin crispy film in French fries to a porous, puffed structure, Lyckeby Careful potato starches can help you achieve your desired texture and coating appearance on various products.