Profile: Maize Products (A Division of Sayaji Industries Ltd.) manufactures products such as maize starch, modified starches, liquid glucose, dextrose monohydrate, anhydrous dextrose, sorbitol & by-products like corn oil and corn gluten. Maize Starch is a cereal starch, which has a low ash and protein content. It does not thin down during the process of sizing, whereas tapioca starch breaks down substantially on cooking. It is transformed into a smooth paste within an hour or in even lesser time under pressure-cooking. It determines the texture of many foods, which is vital to both the consumer and the food manufacturer. The major use of starch in pharmaceutical formulation is as a binder & filler for tablets & capsules. It is specially treated to control the bio-load mainly total viable counts [TVC], yeast mold and gram negative bacteria.