StarchBy Bento, Luis San MiguelPosted on 2010-08-19 Last edited on 2011-09-28 Starch is an indigenous polysaccharides from cane sugar. Its content on cane depend on cane variety. Presence of starch in different varieties were studied by Godshall (Table 1). Table 1 Starch in sugar cane exist in two forms: amilose and amilopectin in the ratio of 1:4 (Meade-Chen). Removal of starch from sugar products can be done enzymaticaly using alfa - amilase. Moodley et al, 2002, refer that Carbonataion in cane sugar refineries removes 93% of starch (values obtained in lab tests). Bibliography
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