Peculiarities of aqueous amaranth starch suspensions.

Among the starches the granules from amaranth starch (a. hypochondriacus, amylopectin type) are singular because of their extremely small size of 1-3 microm and high uniformity. However, large spherical particles of 30-80 microm in diameter were observed from spray-dried amaranth starch by environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM) which exhibited a characteristic fine structure.