Starches starch-sugars

Starch uses are traditionally split into food and nonfood, or into native, modified and hydrolyzed starches, starch sugars and fermentation products (- starch EU market, - starch industry, world). Strongest growth is in -> starch hydrolysis products for bulk sweeteners as well as for sugars as C-source in fermentation processes to produce solvents, starting and auxiliary materials for chemical reactions and for fuel ethanol (gasohol). Special starches for traditional application (paper and board processing, textile improvement, binders and others) ftirthermore will make up more than 30% of the entire industrial starch demand. 

Historically, citric acid was isolated by crystallization from lemon juice and later was recognized as a microbial metabohte. This work led to the development of commercial fermentation technology (13). The basic raw materials for making citric acid include com starch, molasses (sugar cane, beet sugar), and normal paraffin hydrocarbons. 

In 1833 an amylase from germinating barley was recovered and called diastase (1). Like malt itself, this product converted gelatinized starch into sugars, primarily maltose. Shordy thereafter, BerzeHus proclaimed the existence of non-living catalysts, and Schwaim (2) reported on his observation and purification of pepsin. 

Examples include protein, starch, sugar, fmit juice, oil, flavor, color, coffee, and tea. These are all found in the cells of plant matter, ie, seeds, fmits, etc. 

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In more detail the nutrient medium used may contain sources of carbon such as starch, hydrolyzed starch, sugars such as lactose, maltose, dextrose, sucrose, or sugar sources such as molasses alcohols, such as glycerol and mannitol organic acids, such as citric acid and acetic acid and various natural products which may contain other nutrient materials in addition to carbonaceous substances. 

Sodium propionate is also often used as an antifungal agent. Calcium is often preferable to sodium, both to reduce sodium levels in the diet and because calcium ions are necessary for the enzyme a-amylase to act on the starches in bread, making them available for the yeast, and improving the texture of the bread. Stale bread is caused by the starch amylose recrystallizing. The enzyme a-amylase converts some of this starch to sugars, which helps prevent recrystallization. 

Glutamates can be produced by fermentation of starches or sugars, but also by breaking the bonds between amino acids in proteins, leaving free amino acids. This process is done by heat or by enzymes it is called hydrolyzing, because the bonds are broken by adding water. 

Special mention must be made of poly(lactic acid), a biodegradable/bio-resorbable polyester, obtained from renewable resources through fermentation of com starch sugar. This polymer can compete with conventional thermoplastics such as PET for conventional textile fibers or engineering plastics applications. Hie first Dow-Cargill PLA manufacturing facility is scheduled to produce up to 140,000 tons of Nature Works PLA per year beginning in 200245 at an estimated price close to that of other thermoplastic resins U.S. l/kg.46 Other plants are planned to be built in the near future.45... 

Carbohydrates include cellulose, starches, and sugars. Examples C6H1206, glucose sucrose. 

There may be more than one hydroxyl group in an organic molecule. Polyalcohols are widely found in nature as all starchs and sugars are polyalcohols including sucrose (table sugar), and all fats, both vegetable and animal, are derivatives of glycerine. 

Polysaccharides formed from a-glucose are called starches. A starch stores sugar until it is needed for energy production. Three important starches are glycogen, which animals produce in their livers, and amylose and amylopectin, produced by plants through photosynthesis. On average, plant starch is about 20% amylose and 80% amylopectin. Each of these polysaccharides contains glucose as its monomer, but they differ in how the monosaccharide units are linked. 

The shaped pretzels are then given a short intermediate proof followed by passage through an alkaline bath of baking soda. Next the pretzels are covered with salt and baked at 230°C for 4—5 min. The effect of the alkaline treatment is to produce a crisp shiny crust on the baked piece as a result of the reactions of the starch reducing sugars and protein. 

Gonera, A. and Comillion, P. 2002. Gelatinization of starch/gum/sugar systems studied by using DSC, NMR, and CSLM. Starch/Starke 54, 508-516. 

In agricultural applications, the most commonly analyzed constituents are water, protein, starch, sugars, and fiber [16-20]. Such physical or chemical functions such as hardness of wheat, minerals, and food values have no actual relation to chemicals seen in the NIR. These are usually done by inferential spectroscopy. That is, the effect of minerals or the relationship of the spectra to in vitro reactions is used in lieu of chemical analyses to NIR active constituents. Considering that all shipments of grain from the US since the 1980s have been cleared by NIR, it can be argued that this is a critical application of the technique. 

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Different routes for converting biomass into chemicals are possible. Fermentation of starches or sugars yields ethanol, which can be converted into ethylene. Other chemicals that can be produced from ethanol are acetaldehyde and butadiene. Other fermentation routes yield acetone/butanol (e.g., in South Africa). Submerged aerobic fermentation leads to citric acid, gluconic acid and special polysaccharides, giving access to new biopolymers such as polyester from poly-lactic acid, or polyester with a bio-based polyol and fossil acid, e.g., biopolymers . 

The alternative pathway is the biochemical route. It processes starches/sugars into ethanol, a standard technology with installations world-wide, but in a biorefinery the start is the whole-plant material or biomass residues containing hemicel-lulose, which is broken into sugars that then can be fermented to ethanol and/or other alcohols such as butanol. As mentioned before, there is the need to develop novel and/or improved biocatalysts for alternative organic fuels, such as biobutanol, by fermentation processes. 

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