Food technologist marks breakthrough in rice starch procurement, replacing a 60-year-old method with a more 'efficient and environmentally-friendly way' to separate a rice kernel's tightly-bound ...

Starch is an essential material for everything from bread-baking to paper-making, and there is much to be gained from streamlining the way we produce it. Scientists in China have managed to take an ...

BUTUAN CITY – A new sago pith extracting device promises to revitalize the traditional starch industry, offering a solution to the laborious process of extracting starch from the Lumbia tree. “The ...

The world top academic journal Science on Friday published a major breakthrough in the artificial starch synthesis made by a research institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The research ...

Why would plants use a seemingly inefficient method for controlling starch production? A research team studied the mechanisms controlling the plant production of starch, which is the most common ...