Abstract:
Like other commercial starches, maize starch
has a great many uses. They include domestic
use as food in puddings, soup and gravy thickeners,
as cold or hot water laundry starch, as a
preferential water absorber in baking powder, in
the manufacture of confectionery, in sizing and
finishing textiles and papers, as a binding agent
in papers, in making adhesive pastes, in conversion
to dextrins which are the bases of many
adhesives, in syrup and sugars, as a binding and
diluting agent in the preparation of pharmaceutical
products such as pills and tablets, in cosmetics
etc. Moreover, the production of maize
starch yields some by-products that have a high
commercial value.
