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Starch, Bleached

Level 3ContestedIn Winter's Dictionary

Starch, Bleached is a thickener gum — Bleached thickener starch

What it does

Bleached thickener starch

Where you'll see it

batter for commercially processed foods

What the research says

Bleached with hydrogen peroxide, chlorine, persulfate, permanganate

Regulatory status

  • US FDA: ASP

Sources

  • A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives (Winter): a thickener starch is bleached with active oxygen from hydrogen peroxide and/or peracetic acid