Synonym(s)
amylum tritici; Wheat starch
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Tritici amylum (Off.: Ph.Eur.8) refers to a natural, organic, odourless and tasteless chemical compound of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, which belongs to the polysaccharides and is extracted from the endosperm of the fruit.
Chemically, wheat starch consists of a non-uniform polysaccharide mixture of exclusively alpha-glycosidically linked D-glucose building blocks with the molecular formula: (C6H10O5) n. The number of building blocks ranges from 300-1000.
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