Brazil: The cassava production chain returns to discuss the addition of starch to wheat
Wheat Flour
Cassava Starch
Wheat
Brazil
Published May 12, 2022
Tridge summary
The addition of cassava starch in wheat flour for breadmaking has been discussed again within the root production chain. The issue has gained prominence since the conflict between Russia and Ukraine began on February 24. The war raised the price of wheat to the highest level in 14 years in the first month of the conflict. In two weeks wheat rose more than 30%. The reflection Brazilians feel in the price of bread.
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In just over a month of conflict, the price of a kilo of bread was readjusted between 12% and 20% in the country, according to a survey by the Brazilian Association of the Bakery and Confectionery Industry (ABIP). The spike in wheat prices is no accident. Russia and Ukraine are at the top of the wheat chain, the first as the largest global exporter of the commodity, while Ukraine is in fourth position. Together, the two countries export around 210 million tons of grain, 30% of world trade. The president of the Brazilian Association of Cassava Starch Producers (ABAM), Valter de Moura Carloto, said at the last meeting of the Sectorial Chamber of the Cassava and Derivatives Production Chain that the annual consumption of wheat flour in Brazil is 11.4 million of tons. Of this total, the country produces only 6.3 million tons, something like 55% of the need. One way to reduce dependence on imports is to add cassava starch to bread-making flour. “The ideal would be the mixture of 10% of ...
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