Starch Processing Centre

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June 25, 2008
New Starch Processing Centre Offical Opening
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June 1, 2008
Starch 'fuel of human evolution'. Man's ability to digest starchy foods like the potato may explain our success on the planet, genetic work suggests.
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Welcome to the Starch Processing Centre

The Starch Processing Centre is based at the Sutton Bonington Campus of the University of Nottingham and is supported by the East Midlands Development Agency.

Starch is the major component in animal and human foods and is becoming increasingly important as a component of biodegradable packaging, biofuels and the starting material for many other compounds. The Centre encompasses:

best practice in manufacture
product quality
decreasing environmental impact
innovative ingredients
inventive processing
waste utilisation

The Centre

The Starch Centre provides state of the art facilities and a focal point in the region for knowledge transfer and development on starches, starchy materials and associated compounds. The Centre contains pilot scale processing equipment, instrumentation for quality assessments and apparatus that provides an understanding of starch as it changes during processing.