I wouldn't have thought of that. But if you think carefully, you can understand where the legs grow from this question.
Starch is made from potatoes, corn, and whatnot, and potatoes with corn can be genetically modified. But even if they were modified up and down, there are still no genes inside the starch. Therefore, starch cannot be genetically modified. But the starch can simply be modified.
Well, that is, starch is made from glucose. This glucose in starch particles is cleverly wrapped in a network with different branches. Therefore, even the smallest granule of starch consists of hundreds and thousands of glucose molecules.
It is clear that such a shaggy and branched starch particle with tangled hair can behave badly in the product. Starch or food manufacturers often want to deal with slicker, smaller, and more beautifully combed starch particles. Therefore, they modify the starch. Spread it with temperature and various chemicals until the starch becomes prettier and more flexible. Such modified starch dissolves better or prevents anything in the powder from caking. That is, it acquires new wonderful properties.
It is important to understand that modified starch is not an E. It's just starch, but specially trained, washed, shaved, trimmed and with a beautiful haircut.
Well, that is, if we want to roll a cutlet in homemade breading, then it will not work just to mix the minced meat with a hot loaf. The loaf must be dried in crackers, grind and then dip the minced cutlet into it.
If you made rusks from a loaf, then the loaf did not turn into a food additive. He was bread, so he remains bread. So the modified starch was as starch and remains starch. Just more convenient to use.
There are, of course, also brutal genetically modified starches, but I'm not sure what you need to know about them... What? Necessary? Then listen.
Potatoes contain starch, the granule of which consists of two components. One component would be useful in industry, and the second component is not needed by anyone and only clogs production. And so geneticists made such a genetically modified potato, in the starch of which there is no useless part, but only the most profitable for industrial use. This cunning starch is used to make paper. People do not give it, but they say that they are already beginning to feed them animals. So maybe we'll wait. Are you scared? I don't.
