Sterilization potato starch

Starch is extensively used due to its adsorbing properties. In dissolved form, it is used as a skin emollient and as an antidote for iodine poisoning. Other applications include the use as a tablet filler and binder and disintegrant. Sterilized starch is used as a lubricant for surgeon gloves. Unlike talc, it is completely adsorbed by body tissues. Soluble starch is prepared by treating commercial potato starch with dilute hydrochloric acid until it forms an almost clear solution in hot water. 

A number of starch modifications are used in pharmaceutical applications. Pregelatinized or compressible starch has been chemically or mechanically processed to rupture all or part of the granules in water. It is then dried to yield an excipient material suitable for direct-compression formulations. Sterilizable maize starch contains magnesium oxide (not greater than 2.2%) and has been chemically or physically treated to prevent gelatinization on exposure to moisture or steam sterilization. Soluble starch results when potato or maize starch has been chemically treated to destroy the gelatinizing ability of starch. 

Saccharomyces cerevisiae was cultivated with potato protein liquor (PPL) and glucose (starch hydrolysate) as substrate. Before the start of the cultivation PPL was sterilized at various temperatures between 80 and 120 °C for different periods between 5 s and 30 min [27]. The foaminess of PPL was very low before the sterilization. The foaminess increased with the temperature and time during sterilization and, at 120 °C and 30 min, 2 was enlarged by a factor of 2x10. This effect is due to the denaturation of proteins [4] and the formation of Maillard reactions between reducing sugars and amino adds [28]. 

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