PHARMACEUTICAL, FOOD AND NON-FOOD APPLICATIONS OF MODIFIED STARCHES: A CRITICAL REVIEW

In recent years among polysaccharides, starch is receiving utmost attention due to its usefulness in different industrial products in modified form. Native starches in its derivative forms open a wide scope in pharmaceutical, food and non-food based industries. Modification in the native starches are done to overcome different shortcomings like freeze thaw stability, solubility, retrogredation, paste clarity etc. Common modes of modifications are esterification, etherification, phosphorylation, pregelatiniztion etc. In this review article an attempt has been done to explore present and future industrial prospects of modified starches.