Amylose is a complex carbohydrate found in plants. Amylose is unique because your body only partially digests and absorbs it, giving it the name “resistant starch.” Instead of being digested in the ...

Starch is the major storage carbohydrate in plants and one of the most important plant raw materials for both food and industrial applications. Approximately 70% of the European and US starch ...

This is because distinctive structural features of HAS mean that they are not fully broken down in the small intestine, whereas regular starches are more rapidly digested. HAS therefore provoke a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...