Starch from the sugarcane plant is extracted into juice on factory milling or diffusion. Starch is present in the sugarcane stalk but is much more abundant in the leaves and growing point region. It can be found in all sugar cane products in the factory and refinery, including raw and refined sugars. Starch concentrations in a particular product vary widely depending on country, season, variety, sugarcane maturity, processing conditions etc.

The use of ENDOZYM ALPHAMYL SB1 helps to hydrolyse starch in sugar cane, thereby reducing the starch content, which facilitates filtration.

is obtained by controlled fermentation of Chaetomium gracile var.It's an endo-dextranase capable of randomly hydrolysing the interior alpha-1, 6-glucosidic linkages of dextran and its degradation products.

Dextran is a polysaccharide of high molecular weight consisting of glucose units joined together mainly by 1,6-alpha-linkages. It is produced from sucrose by Leuconostoc bacteria and is found as a slimy substance in damage cane and beet tissue.

When the dextran content of raw sugar juice exceeds a level of around 100 ppm on dry substance (Brix) operational problems are expected and as a result factory capacity and yield are lowered, and in many cases shut-down becomes necessary for equipment cleaning.

The dextran molecules increase the viscosity of syrup, massecuite and molasses. ENDOZYME DEXTENDO® has a counter effect whereby it rapidly reduces viscosity of dextran solutions.