Sentence examples for starch from inspiring English sources
The word "starch" is correct and usable in written English
You can usually use the word "starch" to refer to a powdery substance obtained from plants that is processed for culinary, laundry, and other uses like stiffening of cloth. For example, "I added some starch to the shirt to make it less wrinkled."
noun
A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
Instead of stirring the rice to release its creamy starch, as one would with risotto, the grains are left alone, so "the rice retains its 'soul', its inner shape", but, "by boiling it in the right quantity of stock or water it will absorb all the liquid as it cools down gently, and by the time it is completely cold it will be very sticky".
Both starch and cellulose consist of sugar molecules, linked together in different ways, and sugar is what fermentation feeds on.
Mr García wants to see processing plants in the highlands that would turn out potato starch and powder.
IBM is even now trying to wash the starch out of its white-shirted management style.
Perhaps most important, higher CO2 concentrations reduces the quality of cereals, that is, their protein and starch content, taste and mineral components (and hence nutritional value).
It was a time of hunger and unrest, with thousands of farmers and labourers besieging the assembly in Calcutta with cries of "Give us starch!" The ruling Congress party kept the crowds at a distance, or got the police to disperse them with tear gas and rifle fire.
Nestlé finds it cheaper to bring starch in than to buy it locally.
Efficient enzymes have led to more cost-effective fermentation, and genetically modified high-starch corn has a better yield (and so needs less processing in the plant and fewer herbicides in the field).
Dr Piperno, Dr Weiss and their colleagues have now extracted starch-grain residue from this stone.
For example, high-fructose corn syrup (the natural sweetener in soft drinks) is produced on a multi-tonne scale, using two enzymes to convert maize-starch to glucose and then to fructose.
The problem is that the businesses that were responsible for this drop in profits—at Quest, its food-and-flavours operations in the Netherlands (whose boss promptly "resigned"), and at National Starch, its American adhesives and food starches division have been at the core of ICI's recent growth strategy.Much like the problems at Marconi, in other words.
