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starches

starches

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Foods like potatoes or rice that give energy and fill you up
  • noun
  • /ˈstɑːr.tʃɪz/
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  • And overnight, the enzymes in our saliva converts the starches to sugars.

It's like meat, starch, something sweet.

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Examples

  • But if you add yeast to the mixture, it reacts with the sugars produced by the breakdown of the starches to create carbon dioxide.

  • Eating foods rich in starches, like potatoes and rice, provides a significant source of energy.

  • When you consume starches, the digestion begins in the mouth.

  • Same way with starches, with grains, with wheats.

  • Peas tend to convert their sugars into starches after being picked very quickly.

  • We don't have pasta or any really like starch based dinner very often.

  • Vegetables first, proteins and fats second, and then starches and sugars last.

  • We had little sugar, we had no refined starch, we had less salt, and we did not drink milk after we were weaned.

  • Too many simple carbs, sugars and starches destroy your kidneys.

  • So it's not a steak or a pork chop or roast beef at the center of the plate with some vegetables and starch on the side.

    ZOE

Synonyms

carbo
vsstarches
  • UK
11 6.9

A casual name for foods like bread, pasta, or rice that give energy

is the neutral term for foods high in carbohydrates like potatoes and rice

Surface Forms

starch singular
starches plural

Morphology

starches = starch (transparent) = starch + s

Simple plural formation from the noun 'starch'; the meaning ('more than one kind/instance of starch') is directly derived and obvious to learners.

Etymology

Starches comes from an old word that meant 'stiff'. People first used starch to make clothes stiff, and the same plant part is the main part of foods like potatoes, rice and bread, so we call those foods 'starches'.