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Starch in sentence

23 examples of Starch in a sentence

So this is attempting to make potato starch plastic.
So instead of having starch, which is the food of plants, it takes something rather similar to brown fat and burns it at such a rate that it's burning fat, metabolizing, about the rate of a small cat.
Fufu is this white ball of starch made of cassava, and it's served with light soup, which is a dark orange color, and contains chicken and/or beef.
Building on this strength, they attracted investment and started to process, being able to export higher-value products like starch from cassava.
Consider starch and fiber, both polysaccharides, both derived from plants, both composed of hundreds to thousands of monosaccharides joined together, but they're joined together differently, and that changes the effect they have on your body.
Fiber can also trap some starches, preventing them from being cleaved, resulting in something called resistant starch.
So foods high in starch, like crackers and white bread, are digested easily, quickly releasing a whole bunch of glucose into your blood, exactly what would happen if you drank something high in glucose, like soda.
Carbs come in three forms: starch, sugar, and fiber.
However, we have developed other ways of minimizing cavities besides reducing our intake of sugar and starch.
Glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose, lactose, dextrose, and starch are all forms of sugar.
So a baker, and a good baker, knows how to pull or draw forth the inherent sugar trapped in the starch.
It starts to release the sugars trapped in the starch.
These don't sound like really big changes, but when you start thinking about the poor in every country who primarily eat starch, that this will put people who are on the edge over the edge into frank deficiencies, creating all kinds of health problems.
They were reasonable portions of protein served with copious quantities of vegetables and small amounts of starch, usually rice.
Let's just say that if you don't like Commander's Log, I'll personally see to it that your undies get extra starch!
The plot (what there is of it, and be fair, not many reporter/gangster film from the 20's and 30's did either) moves Frazier from the clean black and white world of New York to its darker underbelly without once getting dirty or losing the starch on his Herbert Hoover collar.
Given that bioplastics are produced from renewable or “bio-based” sources (cellulose, starch, and glucose) – and, in some cases, through microbial fermentation – they have a lower carbon footprint, contribute less to global warming, and biodegrade to small molecules.
Any excess glucose stimulated the pancreas to release insulin, which transported glucose into peripheral fat tissue, and which also caused the liver to store glucose as glycogen (liver starch).
She forbade her wearing cotton caps, taught her to address her in the third person, to bring a glass of water on a plate, to knock before coming into a room, to iron, starch, and to dress her—wanted to make a lady's-maid of her.
She was six years older than he, and Theodore, Monsieur Guillaumin's servant, was beginning to pay court to her."Let me alone," she said, moving her pot of starch.
They led Don Quixote into a room, and Sancho removed his armour, leaving him in loose Walloon breeches and chamois-leather doublet, all stained with the rust of his armour; his collar was a falling one of scholastic cut, without starch or lace, his buskins buff-coloured, and his shoes polished.
Why must their ruffs be always crinkled like endive leaves, and not crimped with a crimping iron?"(From this we may perceive the antiquity of starch and crimped ruffs.)
It was he who invented buttons and loops at the ends of dress pantaloons, and who broke fresh ground by his investigation of the comparative merits of isinglass and of starch in the preparation of shirt-fronts.