Food

High amylose leads to more flexible native pea starch

Better thickening, gelling and film-forming properties than other starches thanks to a high amylose content are the benefits claimed for the native pea starch from food ingredients company American ...
Food

FDA approves qualified health claim for high-amylose resistant starch and reduced risk of type 2 diabetes

News that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a qualified health claim about high amylose maize resistant starch as a weapon in the fight against type 2 diabetes will start a ...
理化学研究所

Healthier tapioca starch is on the way

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

The Altered Pattern of Amylose Accumulation in the Endosperm of Low-Amylose Barley Cultivars Is Attributable to a Single Mutant Allele of Granule-Bound Starch Synthase I with a ...

Reasons for the variable amylose content of endosperm starch from waxy cultivars of barley (Hordeum vulgare) were investigated. The mature grains of most such cultivars contain some amylose, although ...
C&EN

Polyiodide chains

The story “Polyiodide Chains Resolve Starch Mystery” (C&EN, July 11, page 9) refers to a very interesting article by Ram Seshadri and Fred Wudl of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and ...