1, different raw materials:

Sweet potato starch is one of the main products in sweet potato processing. Wheat starch is starch extracted from wheat.

2. Different treatment methods:

Sweet potato starch can be divided into fresh sweet potato and dry sweet potato. However, because the quality of fresh sweet potato starch is better than that of dry sweet potato starch, fresh sweet potato is the most processed starch. Because it is more troublesome to cut sweet potatoes, few people use dried sweet potatoes to process starch now.

Wheat starch used to be fermented, that is, wheat was softened and ground with water, and then fermented with acid, so that the cells around starch particles were dissolved and starch was easily separated.

3. Different uses:

Sweet potato starch can be used to process biodiesel; Industrial processing: such as food packaging paper (bag), clothing cloth, natural lead-free cloth, etc. Pharmaceutical processing: for example, 85% of western medicine tablets are starch, monosodium glutamate, amino acids for human use, amino acids for animals, deformed starch (extracted carotene, blood substitute syrup), food pigments, etc. Green food, organic food processing and raw material utilization.

After all, wheat starch is a refined grain, which is mainly used as thickener, gelling agent, adhesive or stabilizer in food, and some of it is also used as starch sugar (an edible sugar, but healthier than sucrose).

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