“…The maltodextrins are defined by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a mixture of nutritive carbohydrate, non-sweet, with different degree of polymerization, consisting of D-glucose units joined by glucosidic bounds α(1,4) and α(1,6), which together have a DE < 20, are presented as a white powder or concentrated solutions and they are classified as ingredients generally recognized as safe (GRAS) (Marchal et al, 1999;Storz and Steffens, 2004). In the food industry, maltodextrins are used to supply nutritional value, to give consistency and texture, control sweetness and hygroscopicity, control the freezing point, to prevent the crystallization and the non-enzymatic browning, to regulate osmolality, spray-drying aid, are excellent fat replacers, film formers and not mask flavors (Chronakis, 1998;Herrera et al, 2000;Wang and Wang, 2000).…”