These modified starches represent an intermediate stage in the
normal enzymatic digestion of food starch in the human body. This
process also occurs in the human stomach and results in hydrolysis of
some of the linkages between adjacent anhydroglucose units with a
reduction of the mean molecular weight of these starch molecules. In
the commercial process hydrochloric, sulfuric or phosphoric acid is
used and the excess is neutralized with sodium hydroxide or sodium
carbonate