Flour, corn flour, lotus root starch, horseshoe powder, cassava starch, etc. However, because the thickening effect is far less than that of starch, it can only be temporarily replaced.

Starch, which is polymerized from glucose molecules, is the most common storage form of carbohydrates in cells.

Besides eating, it is also used to make dextrin, maltose, glucose, alcohol and so on. In industry, it is also used to prepare printing paste, textile sizing, paper sizing, pressed tablets and so on.