Abstract:
For many years starch and starch containing
materials have been converted by means of high
temperatures in the presence of catalysts into
soluble sweet products.
Early in the last century it was discovered
that, if potato starch slurry is treated with acid, a
sweet tasting syrup was produced, from which
dextrose crystallized.
Since that time starch production from amylaceous
raw materials and starch processing into
high-quality starch derivatives has made enormous
technological progress, especially over the
past thirty years.
