Applications
Oatrim can be used in cheeses as a fat replacer.12 Other possible applications are
in ice cream and frozen desserts, milk shakes, hot chocolate, instant-type breakfast
drinks, cereals, salad dressings, soups, sauces and gravies. Oat starch in combination
with oat hydrolysate or with xanthan gum has been used for thickening of sweet and
sour sauces.18
Cationic oat starch was used to improve the dry strength of paper handsheets and
found to be comparable to wheat starch in functionality.14 Oat starch might possibly
be a replacement for rice starch in pharmaceutical applications.19 Oat flur has been
used in adhesive preparation