Rheology of Starch

Starch is one of the most widely used functional and flexible food stabilizers serving purposes in both thickening and gelling. Throughout history humans have relied on starchy foods derived from various sources such as seeds roots and tubers with agricultural practices evolving to produce staple grain crops like barley rice wheat and corn. The raw materials utilized in starch production typically include grains from cereals potato tubers and certain roots each with varying starch content: rice (70-80%) corn (65-75%) wheat (60-70%) rye barley oats (50-60%) potatoes (17-24%) and cassava (15-21%). The book comprises several chapters covering topics such as starch dextrin and glucose manufacturing technology food biopolymers rheology starch-galactomannan mixtures and the physics of the starch system. The first chapter delves into the detailed manufacturing processes of starch dextrin and glucose.