Starch is the major storage carbohydrate in plants and one of the most important plant raw materials for both food and industrial applications. Approximately 70% of the European and US starch ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan have recently created a healthier form of starch in the cassava plant. Published in the scientific journal Plant ...

IT is assumed that the molecules of amylopectin and glycogen have a ramified structure, the glucose residues being united by α-glucosidic 1,4- or 1,6-linkages, the latter representing the branching ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Phosphorolysis rather than phosphorylation of amylolysis products was found to be the major pathway of sugar phosphate formation from ...

Humble potatoes are a rich source not only of dietary carbohydrates for humans, but also of starches for numerous industrial applications. Scientists are learning how to alter the ratio of potatoes' ...

Retrogradation is a process in which food starches, after cooking and cooling, crystallize to become resistant to digestion. The conversion reduces the digestible calories and increases health ...

The fall of 2009 was a truly special season for the Emsland Group: For the first time in the history of the largest German potato starch manufacturer, it processed Tilling potatoes, which exclusively ...

A recent study published in the journal Foods discusses the effects of starch structure on human health. Study: Effects of the Molecular Structure of Starch in Foods on Human Health. Image Credit: ...