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beta-Amylase: High activity beta-amylase for digesting starch.
Applications: include: Agriculture, Starch Processing, Food Processing, Brewing, Baking, Biofuels.
Properties: beta-Amylase offers significant benefits and versatile applications across the food and beverage industry due to its ability to efficiently hydrolyse starch into high-purity maltose. Its key advantages include improved sweetness, enhanced flavour development, and clean-label formulation since maltose provides a natural alternative to added sugars. In baking, beta-amylase supports better dough handling, improved crumb softness, and desirable browning through increased fermentable sugars. In brewing and distilling, it boosts fermentability, enhances attenuation, and contributes to a consistent, malt-forward flavour profile. The enzyme also plays a central role in producing maltose syrups and carbohydrate ingredients for confectionery and processed foods, where controlled starch conversion is essential. Additionally, beta-amylase improves extraction efficiency in cereal processing and supports smoother texture and flavor release in plant-based beverages. Overall, its stability, natural action, and high maltose yield make beta-amylase a valuable tool for creating high-quality, efficient, and consumer-friendly food products.
Reaction:
Starch + H2O → Maltose, Maltotriose and Dextrins
- Activity: 700,000 U/mL*
- Appearance: Brown liquid
- Bulk density: 1.2 g / mL
- Certification: Food grade, ISO 22000
- Temperature range: 15–65°C
- pH range: 3.5–6.0
- Storage & Shelf Life: 12 months, store dark between 5–25°C
* where 1 U/mL is defined as the amount of enzyme in 1 mL enzyme solution to liquefy 1.1 % soluble starch / hour at pH 5.5 & 60°C.

Supporting technical guides
Oat Milk & Plant-Based Beverages
Beta-Amylase for Oat Milk: Maltose Production and Sweetness Control
Use beta-amylase to produce maltose in oat milk. Explore trial conditions, dosing and glucose trade-offs, then shop the enzyme for your process.
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Beverage Development
Choosing Enzymes for New Drinks: Feedstocks and Timing
Choose enzymes for oat, rice, pulse, nut, fruit and coffee drinks. Match feedstocks, processing stages and trial targets, then shop suitable enzymes.
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Starch and fermentation
Alpha-Amylase vs Beta-Amylase vs Glucoamylase: Which Do I Need?
Compare alpha-amylase, beta-amylase and glucoamylase for starch liquefaction, maltose and glucose production. Choose enzymes for your process.
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Starch and fermentation
What Does Pullulanase Do in Starch Saccharification?
Learn when pullulanase can help starch conversion, how debranching complements amylases, and what to measure before adding it to a process.
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Enzyme science · Deep dive
Beta-amylase: structure, mechanism and industrial uses
Successive release of maltose supports maltose-rich syrups and brewing, with the branch structure of the starch controlling how far conversion proceeds.
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