11 Facts About Starch

Starch or amylum is a polymeric carbohydrate consisting of numerous glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds.

Starch is synthesized in plant leaves during the day and stored as granules; it serves as an energy source at night.

Starch can be dissolved or undergo gelation in ionic liquids or metal chloride salt solutions.

Starch solution was used as indicator for visualizing the periodic formation and consumption of triiodide intermediate in the Briggs-Rauscher oscillating reaction.

Starch is the most common carbohydrate in the human diet and is contained in many staple foods.

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Starch can be hydrolyzed into simpler carbohydrates by acids, various enzymes, or a combination of the two.

Starch is used in paper coatings as one of the binders for the coating formulations which include a mixture of pigments, binders and thickeners.

Starch was widely used in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries to stiffen the wide collars and ruffs of fine linen which surrounded the necks of the well-to-do.

Starch gave clothing smooth, crisp edges, and had an additional practical purpose: dirt and sweat from a person's neck and wrists would stick to the starch rather than to the fibers of the clothing.

Starch is available in spray cans, in addition to the usual granules to mix with water.

Starch is used in the manufacture of various adhesives or glues for book-binding, wallpaper adhesives, paper sack production, tube winding, gummed paper, envelope adhesives, school glues and bottle labeling.