Decatur, Ill. (Feb. 9, 2010) – Tate Lyle, a world-leading supplier of food ingredients, is growing its expansive line of food starches with the launch of X-PAND’R^® 683.

A pregelatinized waxy maize starch, X-PAND’R^® 683 is designed to deliver a crispy, crunchy and cohesive texture to a wide variety of bakery and snack applications. The company’s newest starch aids in the development of cohesive and pliable dough that can be processed through conventional sheeters and extruders without stickiness. It is ideal for sheeted and formed, coated and extruded snacks, and cakes, cookies and muffins.

Sheeted and formed snacks: X-PAND’R^® 683 delivers expansion and crispness in a wide range of snack crackers and snack chips containing flours, dried vegetables and potato flakes.

Coated snacks: X-PAND’R^® 683 provides a crispy coating with excellent adhesion on nuts and dried fruits under baking conditions.

Extruded snacks: X-PAND’R^® 683 provides lower process viscosity during extrusion and delivers expanded and crisp texture with a uniform network of air cells. X-PAND’R^® 683 is suitable for cold forming or low temperature extrusion applications.

Cakes, cookies and muffins: X-PAND’R^® 683 may be used in baked goods for improving batter viscosity and increasing moisture retention in finished products.

“Tate Lyle’s customers are always seeking unique, yet familiar, textures for their snacks,” says Jim Miller, Director, Texturants and Wellness, Tate Lyle. “Our new starch, X-PAND’R® 683 provides a combined crispy and cohesive texture that consumers have found overwhelmingly appetizing through sensory testing.”

Miller adds: “The addition of X-PAND’R® 683 complements our growing line of  X-PAND’R® starches and snack industry solutions which provides unique textures, including crispy, crackly and flakey and can be used in better-for-you bakery and snack products  to deliver consumer appeal.

Snack and bakery manufacturers who want more information or samples of X-PAND’R^® 683 can call 866-653-6622.

About X-PAND’R^® Instant Starches

X-PAND’R^® is a line of waxy maize starches offered by Tate Lyle. X-PAND’R^® starches are typically blended with other dry ingredients in snack and bakery formulations.  X-PAND’R^® and the new X-PAND’R^® 683 are traditional pre-gelatinized starches, while X-PAND’R^® SC and X-PAND’R^® 612 are unmodified, cold-water swelling natural starches. In addition to X-PAND’R^® starch family, Tate Lyle has an expansive line of instant starches that can be used in multiple applications including snacks, confections, beverages and dairy.

About Tate Lyle

Tate Lyle is a world-leading renewable food and industrial ingredients company, serving a global market from more than 45 production facilities throughout the Americas, Europe and South East Asia. Our efficient, large-scale manufacturing plants turn agricultural products, corn and cane sugar, into valuable ingredients for our customers. These ingredients add taste, texture, nutrition and increased functionality to products that millions of people around the world use or consume every day.

Tate Lyle’s range of leading branded food ingredients include SPLENDA^® Sucralose, PROMITOR™ Dietary Fiber, STA-LITE^®, Polydextrose, Tate Lyle Fairtrade Sugar and Lyle’s Golden Syrup. Tate Lyle also produces branded industrial ingredients including Bio-PDO™, Ethylex^® and STA-Lock^® paper starches; and staple ingredients such as high fructose corn syrup, sugar, ethanol, citric acid and basic starches. In addition to providing a wide range of ingredients, our expert sales and product applications teams support customers by providing technical advice and proprietary consumer insight studies.

Tate Lyle is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE.L. American Depositary Receipts trade under TATYY. In the year to 31 March 2009, Tate Lyle employed 5,718people in its subsidiaries and joint ventures, and sales totaled $6.41 billion (£3.55billion UK). http://www.tateandlyle.com.

SPLENDA^® is a trademark of McNeil Nutritionals, LLC

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