If you rub the starch between your fingertips, it will squeak. This is how starch can be distinguished from powdered sugar, or flour, or soda, which is so similar to it.
If starch is dissolved in hot water, it will dissolve, swell and turn into paste. This property of starch is actively used in cooking to prepare all kinds of dishes, including:
jelly
and
jelly
. If starch is added to
Cookie dough
or cake, the finished product will get a special sandy taste (sandy means crumbly, and not "similar to sand" in taste)).
When starch enters the stomach, it is digested, hydrolyzed and becomes glucose. Glucose is completely absorbed by the human body. Molasses (artificial honey) is also prepared from starch.
Starch is used not only for food, it is also used in industry. For example, in the textile industry, fabrics are processed with starch. At home, starch is often used for bed linen or white shirts. Starched linen becomes pleasantly "crispy", more dense.
The most famous varieties of starch are
corn starch
and
potato starch
. Sometimes starch is made at home
from potatoes
. This practice usually takes place in areas where the population grows a large number of potatoes on their own. For example, in Siberia.
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