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Starch Extraction

Starch can be extracted from grains or roots and tubers through two processes. For grains, the wet-milling process cleans, steeps, grinds the grain to remove non-starch components, then mixes the flour with water to remove gluten and yield crude starch milk, which is dewatered in hydrocyclones. For roots and tubers, cleaning and rasping breaks cell walls to release starch granules, followed by washing to flush granules from cells, with hydrocyclones then separating starch from water and fiber.

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Starch Extraction

Starch can be extracted from grains or roots and tubers through two processes. For grains, the wet-milling process cleans, steeps, grinds the grain to remove non-starch components, then mixes the flour with water to remove gluten and yield crude starch milk, which is dewatered in hydrocyclones. For roots and tubers, cleaning and rasping breaks cell walls to release starch granules, followed by washing to flush granules from cells, with hydrocyclones then separating starch from water and fiber.

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Starch extraction is carried out by one of two processes:

 Starch is extracted from grains by the wet-milling process. The first step
consists in cleaning, steeping, grinding and removing some of the non-starch
components of the grain (germ, bran, protein layer). In a second step, the resulting
flour is mixed with water in order to remove gluten, yielding crude starch milk. Starch
milk is then dewatered in hydrocyclones (Daniel et al., 2007).
 Starch extraction from roots and tubers starts with cleaning and rasping the
raw materials in order to break the cells and release starch granules. The resulting
slurry is a mixture of pulp (cell walls), juice and starch. Sulphur is used to prevent
oxidative browning of the juice. Powerful washing is used to flush the granules out of
the cells. The pulp is retained on sieves while the slurry (starch and juice) is removed
for subsequent refining. The slurry is sent to hydrocyclones to separate starch from
water and fibre on a density basis (Daniel et al., 2007).

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