Maize Starch

Abstract

Like other commercial starches, maize starch has a great many uses. They include domestic use as food in puddings, soup and gravy thickeners, as cold or hot water laundry starch, as a preferential water absorber in baking powder, in the manufacture of confectionery, in sizing and finishing textiles and papers, as a binding agent in papers, in making adhesive pastes, in conversion to dextrins which are the bases of many adhesives, in syrup and sugars, as a binding and diluting agent in the preparation of pharmaceutical products such as pills and tablets, in cosmetics etc. Moreover, the production of maize starch yields some by-products that have a high commercial value.