Starch Industrial uses

Economic Growth and Organization of the US Corn Starch Industry... 

T. Sanner, A. P. Kightlinger, and J. R. Davis. Borate-starch compositions for use in oil field and other industrial applications. Patent US 5559082, 1996. 

Fructose has a much sweeter taste than glucose, hence the transformation of glucose derived from enzymatic hydrolysis of starch from com, provides an alternative sweetener to sucrose (a disaccharide of glucose and fructose). This replaced the use of sugar cane by the US soft drinks and candy industry (and effectively destroyed the economy of Cuba in the process). 

The use of alcohol (ethanol) prepared from the fermentation of sugars, starches and other carbohydrates dates back to the beginning of recorded history. Alcohol is the most important drug of dependence in all industrialized countries, and the clinical and social problems that arise from its widespread abuse are legion. In the US, the total annual economic cost of alcoholism and its related disorders has been estimated to be approximately 80 billion, and this does not take into account the human cost, which is impossible to quantify. It has been calculated that the lifetime... 

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