Corn Starch - Corn Refiners Association

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CornStarchCornStarch1Corn Refiners Association1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, , 20006-5805202-331-1634 Fax: EditionCopyright 2006Member Companies ........................................ ..................... 2Foreword ........................................ ..................................... 4Starch and the Starch Granule ........................................ ...... 5The Corn Wet Milling Process ........................................ .... 7Physicochemical Properties of Starch ................................. 10Commercial Corn 13Unmodified, regular or common corn Starch ....................13Genetic variations of corn Starch .

starches the alpha-1,4-linkage predominates, with only occasional 1,6-linkages. The 1,4-linkages yield straight chain starch molecules called amylose, while the 1,6-linkages serve as the branching point in branched-chain starch molecules called amylopectin (Figure 6). The proportions of these two types of starch molecules are established

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