Why do plants produce starch? Detailed answer

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Why do plants produce starch?

Does anyone in your family follow a diet? Then you probably heard a person say, refusing a dish: "This is not for me! Too much starch!" Of course, if there are growing children in the house, then they usually eat a lot of starch in order to “grow better”.

Starch, no matter how different people treat it, is one of the most important substances in the world. Humanity gets more food from starch than from any other substance! We get our starch from plants, where it is found in tiny grains.

How do plants produce starch? With the help of sunlight and chlorophyll, plants combine the water they take in from the soil with the carbon dioxide they get from the air into sugar. Plants convert sugar into starch. Plants accumulate starch in small grains in trunks and stems, roots, leaves, fruits and seeds. Potatoes, maize, rice and wheat contain large amounts of starch.

Plants produce starch so that it serves as food for young shoots and shoots until they are able to produce their own food. So when you see a plant that begins to grow, know that the food for this growth is provided by the accumulated reserves of starch.

For humans and animals, starch is an energy-intensive food. Like sugar, it is made up of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Starch is unsweetened: it is usually tasteless. Certain chemicals in the mouth, stomach, and intestines convert starchy foods into grape sugar, which is easy to digest.

A person receives starch from plants by grinding those parts of them where it accumulates. Then the starch is washed out with water and settles to the bottom of large containers, after which the water is squeezed out of the raw starch, the mass is dried and ground into a powder, in the form of which starch is usually made.

Starch is used in the most unexpected places. It is used in laundry, as an adhesive, in the manufacture of fabrics, and as a base for many toilet preparations.

Author: Likum A.

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