100% Food Grade (beware cheap industrial grade products not meant for human consumption) ✡ Highest Quality Assured by Strict Orthodox Union Certification Standards Excellent thickener for soups, sauces and desserts An odorless, tasteless and colorless thickening agent (made from Tapioca starch) Perfect for Molecular Gastronomy and Modernist Cooking applications ULTRA-TEX 3 is a high performance cold water swelling starch which delivers many of the quality benefits of a cook-up starch with the convenience of an instant. ULTRA-TEX 3 is a high performance cold water swelling modified food starch derived from tapioca. It exhibits many of the properties of a modified cook-up starch and possesses a very bland flavor profile with good mouth melt-away characteristics. ULTRA-TEX 3 provides a very smooth, short, and glossy texture in a range of instant food applications. It also imparts a rich creamy mouthfeel while possessing a very bland flavor profile. In addition, this product has improved tolerance to heating and acidic conditions compared to conventional pregelatinized tapioca starches. A further advantage when using this product is the excellent textural stability it possesses, even in cold temperature or refrigerated storage conditions.