Characteristics of cassava starch (Manihot esculenta) and its use as raw material for the development of technologies in agricultural production

Starch is an important raw material for the chemical, pharmaceutical, textile, and mainly food industries due to its desirable functional properties, whether native or modified.In addition, it is considered the main energy-storage carbohydrate.Allowing you to present advantages such as low-cost material, abundance, and availability.Therefore, compared to synthetic polymeric materials, it contains hydroxyl groups that give it hydrophilic properties.Amylose and amylopectin have an important role in the composition, since they constitute the majority of the starch, which influences properties such as crystallinity, viscosity, retrogradation, gelation, and stickiness.These properties are essential to give this raw material an industrial use, either in food or in the production of biodegradable films.