Abstract:
Starches, the granules of which are substantially completely intact and which have lost from about 40 percent to 100 percent birefringence, which will rapidly hydrate in cold water to form smooth, viscous pastes, are prepared as follows. Nongelatinized starch is slurried with (1) a solvent for starch (preferably water), and (2) an organic liquid which is miscible with the solvent for starch (e.g., methanol); the slurry is continuously passed through a confined zone wherein it is subjected to gelatinizing conditions. The process conditions are so selected as to produce the desired end product.