starch
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In “The Caribbean Cookbook,” the starch is either rice or “ground provisions,” the Anglophone term for yams, sweet potatoes, plantains, breadfruit and other staples.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Before you drain, save the pasta water — that cloudy starch is what turns chopped olives and warm oil into a sauce that clings instead of puddles.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2026
The tools were tested for tiny starch granules left behind when plants were processed for food.
From Science Daily • Jan. 25, 2026
But there's also a huge -- if largely unrealised -- potential for their use in bioplastics and biofuels, as well as cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and textiles, thanks to their starch.
From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025
His plaid shirt was open at the collar, but the wings were crisp with starch.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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