The highly structured nature
of the starch granule is demonstrated
by its great
strength. After all the pulverizing,
pumping, centrifugal
circulation and physical
attrition in the wet phases of
the corn wet milling operation,
followed by drying,
grinding and mechanical or
air transportation of the dry
starch, practically all of the
granules remain intact.
Granule integrity also persists
in both modified and
derivatized starches.
shapes of granules from six
common starches. Starch
molecules are oriented
within granules in specific
crystalline patterns.