Talk:Modified starch

message: why do they want to modify it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.110.221.226 (talk • contribs) 
:Starches are modified for a number of reasons. Starches may be modified to increase their stability against excessive heat, acid, and freezing; also to change their texture, and to lengthen or shorten gelatization time. I'll add this info to the article. —Pengo  talk · contribs 23:08, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Why?

message: In my experience, any natural substance that's 'modified' or 'enriched' really reduces the likelihood that it's good for you, not to mention the taste. Any word yet from the science-types on what modified starch will do to you over the long term? -- Chris 15:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Generally, I believe, the modified versions of starch would also be found in nature, and it's hard to imagine glucose chains being harmful. However having starch listed as an ingredient (whether modified or not) is probably a good indication you're not eating a wholefood, which may be considered healthier for non-reductionists. —Pengo  talk · contribs 12:05, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If the starch is modified with Nitric Acid, Bleach or who knows whatever generally foreign and/or toxic agent (it seems the book is completely open on that), it's simply false to claim those substances do not exist in the final product.  Furthermore, with the FDA recently saying that High Fructose Corn Syrup is not "natural" ( http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=84404-fcs-natural ) for similar reasons, suspicions ought to be rightly heaped upon such inorganic and highly unnatural processes.  Surely modified food starch is not "natural" if HFCS isn't, likewise arguably for bleached flour, Hydrogenated Oils, Olestra, and countless other dietary nasties.  The term "natural" has become so co-opted by U.S. industry in recent years, and few consumers realize that it holds essentially no real meaning in a legal sense.  If consumers and the public in general had even a cursory understanding of what some of these so-called innocuous, "natural" ingredients are and contain, there would likely be a swift trend away from the use of such ingredients.  To call these products "natural," and to (experimentally) introduce low levels of known poisons or carcinogens into the food supply of enormous populations of unknowing people is patently unethical.  Such societal trends ought to be noted, discussed, and acted upon - food (and what's in it) is one thing that people still have the ability to produce autonomously for themselves and for their families and communities.  Food sovereignty and Organic Food are relevant in the discussion of such additive ingredients.   98.164.98.31 (talk) 00:08, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Health effects? 

message: What does modified starch actually contain - where does the original starch come from? Specifically, does it have vegetable or animal origins? --72.190.110.84 17:33, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know, starch is always from plant origins. —Pengo 22:29, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contents? 

message: What kind of photo subject would best illustrate this article? Modified food starch is a white powder. A picture of a package (or pile) of powder seems inapt. I have a bag of it, but hesitate to post a photo of just the powder or even the bag full of powder. Any ideas? Geoff T C  17:17, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Terrific ideas! Go for it! Geoff T C  18:52, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo? 

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message: it is up to ISO 690 panelles to administrate it
--222.64.223.252 (talk) 01:02, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you mean panels?  I doubt anyone from ISO will edit this page in an official capacity, though I suppose someone there might happen to be a Wikipedia editor.  Astronaut (talk) 02:12, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ref section needs to be closely examined and ...... 

message: * http://www.zjnw.gov.cn/site/difang-zwz/lsnw/templet_lsz.jsp?articleId=14423
* http://www.cqagri.gov.cn/detail.asp?pubID=84793
* http://cnki.gzkj.gov.cn/kns50/detail.aspx?filename=SPKJ200601055&dbname=CJFD2006
* http://cnki.gzkj.gov.cn/kns50/detail.aspx?filename=SPKJ200601055&dbname=CJFD2006
* http://www.dqnw.gov.cn/readtopic.asp?id=40129
--58.38.43.52 (talk) 05:58, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yet more links in Chinese.  Can you not find stuff in English for the benefit of non-chinese readers?  Astronaut (talk) 02:13, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More info about the topic....