26. March 2017

Background Starchy products have been widely used in the food, paper, textile, plastic, cosmetics, adhesives, and pharmaceutical industries. To meet specific requirements of their applications, different modification techniques, such as physical, chemical, and enzymatic methods, have been employed to enhance or inhibit their inherent properties or to endow specific properties of starch. Scope and approach Debranched starch (DBS), modified by pullulanase or isoamylase, acquires remarkable new...