Cereals and Starch Vocabulary

to make it thick or viscous

• weeping

• thickening

• aggregate

• rupture

molecular rearrangement of micelles such that linear molecules aggregate into a crystal mass

• diluents

• gelatinization

• retrogradation

• binding

break or tear apart

• rupture

• weeping

• binding

• combine

having the consistency of glue; thick, gelatinous, gummy

• jello

• agar-agar

• gelatin

• viscous

separation of water or liquid from starch paste

• weeping

• aggregate

• principle

• binding

mass of fragments or parts combined together to form a whole

• principle

• aggregate

• diluent

• glass

an agent (starch) added to attain a consistency as in the function of starch in baking powder

• fllour

• baking soda

• diluent

• cereal

the effect of heat on starch, wherein starch absorbs water, becoming swollen and thickened to a paste

• ooblek

• gelatinization

• weeping

• cooking

refers to truth or fact and is used as a guide

• principle

• truth

• fact

• recipe

act of putting together into a mass

• binding

• rupture

• weeping

• cooking