Hydroxypropyl starch explained

Hydroxypropyl starch is a type of modified starch used as a food additive. I has the E number E1440. Hydroxyl propyl starch is not absorbed intact by the gut, but are significantly hydrolyzed 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 .