Corn Starch - Corn Refiners Association
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 .
(Figure 1). Starch granules vary in size and shape, char-acteristic of specific plant sources. Figure 2 shows the comparative sizes and shapes of granules from six common starches. Starch molecules are oriented within granules in specific crystalline patterns. This is illustrated in Figure 3, showing the Maltese cross pattern characteristic of
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