1, different raw materials

Tapioca is a kind of starch extracted from the tuberous roots of tropical plants, this plant belongs to the big maple family, and castor, rubber, small tung seed the same family. It is transparent when cooked with water and heat, and has an elastic texture.

Corn starch, also called cornstarch, chestnut starch, chestnut flour, raw flour, and in some places bean flour (this is indeed rare), is the starch extracted from corn kernels - the most abundant starch in supply, but not as good as potato starch, which can be used to make cookies, chiffonade, and coconut squares.

Sweet potato flour (here, sweet potato starch, not rice flour made from sweet potato), also known as groundnut flour, which is a powder made from sweet potato starch, etc. Generally, groundnut flour is in the form of granules, and there are two types of coarse and fine grains.

Wheat starch, also called clarified flour, clarified noodles, ting flour, is a gluten-free flour, the composition of wheat, after rinsing with water, the flour gluten in the flour with other substances to separate out, the gluten into gluten, the rest is clarified noodles.

2, the role of different

Tapioca it is the main ingredient of baby food milk pudding, also used to make soup and stew thickened.

Corn starch it is used as a thickener in cooking, used to help the texture of the material soft and smooth, or soup thickening. When baking, it is sometimes necessary to mix a certain amount of cornstarch into the flour when making pastry batters.

Sweet potato flour, like cornstarch, has a sticky consistency when melted in water and heated, but sweet potato flour has a higher viscosity than cornstarch, so it is less common to use groundnut flour in thickening Chinese dishes because the viscosity is too difficult to control. Sweet potato flour can also be used for deep-frying as well as for Chinese dim sum.

Wheat starch can be used to make various kinds of dim sum, such as shrimp dumplings, vermicelli, and sausage noodles.

3, the use of different

Corn starch in the starch sugar (containing glucose syrup, maltose syrup, fructose syrup containing 42% fructose and high fructose syrup containing 55% fructose, as well as medical crystalline glucose and so on) is the starch deep-processing of the largest category of products. Mainly food additives, but also raw materials for industry.

Wheat starch is also used to make starch sugar (a kind of edible sugar, but healthier than sucrose) industrial application is not much.

Sweet potato starch industrial processing utilization: food wrapping paper (bags), clothing fabrics, natural lead-free fabrics. Utilization of pharmaceutical processing. Western medicine tablets 85% is starch, monosodium glutamate, human amino acids, veterinary amino acids, deformed starch (extraction of carotenoids, substitute blood syrup), food coloring and so on.

Tapioca original starch and a variety of modified starch in the production of candy has many uses, such as gelling, thickening, stabilizing the system, enhance the foaming, control crystallization, bonding, film, add luster, etc.. Low viscosity tapioca starch is widely used in gelatinized confectionery, such as jelly and chewing gum.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Wheat Starch

Baidu Encyclopedia - Sweet Potato Starch

Baidu Encyclopedia - Cassava Starch