Potato starch is indispensable in meat production. Because of the high transparency of potato starch after gelatinization, it can prevent meat products from discoloring, so it can reduce the use of other additives and keep the fresh and tender color of meat for a long time.

Potato starch can also lock the moisture in food, prevent loss, avoid food spoilage and make the structure and organization of food look better.

In the process of making some sausage products, using potato starch instead of corn starch will reduce the amount of starch, reduce the cost and make the meat taste smoother and tender.

Extended data

Potato starch plays an important role in human life and production. In modern industry, potato starch is used as an important raw material to replace corn starch, wheat starch and cassava starch in more and more production and processing processes.

Because potato starch has strong water absorption and gelatinization characteristics, adding potato starch into the printing and dyeing pulp of large dyeing and weaving factories and paper mills can make the impregnated cloth and paper have good color and quality. Adding potato starch to rubber not only plays a role in filling, but also plays a role in crosslinking, which can enhance the strength, hardness and wear resistance of rubber products.

Potato starch can be used in slimming products, health food, functional food, whitening products and so on because of its low calorie, anti-oxidation and metabolism promotion.

In addition, the by-products of potato starch are wastewater and waste residue from potato starch processing. The organic matter content is very high, so some chemical components can be extracted and applied to chemical production process.

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