Distarch phosphate explained

Distarch phosphate, E1412 in the E number scheme of food additives, is a modified starch. These are not absorbed intact by the gut, but are significantly hydrolysed by intestinal enzymes and then fermented by intestinal microbiota.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Re-evaluation of oxidised starch (E 1404), monostarch phosphate (E 1410), distarch phosphate (E 1412), phosphated distarch phosphate (E 1413), acetylated distarch phosphate (E 1414), acetylated starch (E 1420), acetylated distarch adipate (E 1422), hydroxypropyl starch (E 1440), hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate (E 1442), starch sodium octenyl succinate (E 1450), acetylated oxidised starch (E 1451) and starch aluminium octenyl succinate (E 1452) as food additives . EFSA Journal . 2017 . 15 . 10 . 4911 . 10.2903/j.efsa.2017.4911 . free . Mortensen . Alicja . Aguilar . Fernando . Crebelli . Riccardo . Di Domenico . Alessandro . Dusemund . Birgit . Frutos . Maria Jose . Galtier . Pierre . Gott . David . Gundert‐Remy . Ursula . Lambré . Claude . Leblanc . Jean‐Charles . Lindtner . Oliver . Moldeus . Peter . Mosesso . Pasquale . Parent‐Massin . Dominique . Oskarsson . Agneta . Stankovic . Ivan . Waalkens‐Berendsen . Ine . Wright . Matthew . Younes . Maged . Tobback . Paul . Horvath . Zsuzsanna . Tasiopoulou . Stavroula . Woutersen . Rudolf Antonius . Woutersen . R. A. . 32625282 . 7009865 .