starch

carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined by glycosidic bond
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starch

Summary

starch is an excipient[1]. starch draws 122 Wikipedia views per month (excipient category, ranking #2 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • starch's instance of is recorded as excipient[3].
  • starch's instance of is recorded as glucan[4].
  • starch's instance of is recorded as food ingredient[5].
  • starch's instance of is recorded as food product[6].
  • starch's instance of is recorded as type of polymer[7].
  • starch is a type of polysaccharide[8].
  • starch is a type of food ingredient[9].
  • starch is a type of primary metabolite[10].
  • starch is a type of type of polymer[11].
  • starch is part of starch binding[12].
  • starch is part of starch metabolic process[13].
  • starch is part of starch catabolic process[14].
  • starch is part of starch biosynthetic process[15].
  • starch is used for nutriment[16].
  • starch is used for thickener[17].
  • starch's Commons category is recorded as Starch[18].
  • starch comprises oxygen[19].
  • starch comprises carbon[20].
  • starch comprises hydrogen[21].
  • starch comprises amylopectin[22].
  • starch comprises amylose[23].
  • starch's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Starch[24].
  • starch's described by source is recorded as Pauly–Wissowa[25].
  • starch's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[26].
  • starch's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedic Lexicon[27].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include excipient[3], glucan[4], food ingredient[5], food product[6], and type of polymer[7]. Recorded subclass of include polysaccharide[8], food ingredient[9], primary metabolite[10], and type of polymer[11].

Use and Application

Recorded has use include nutriment[16] and thickener[17]. Components include oxygen[19], a chemical element[28]; carbon[20], a chemical element[29]; hydrogen[21], a chemical element[30]; amylopectin[22], a type of polymer[31]; and amylose[23], a type of polymer[32]. Part of include starch binding[12], starch metabolic process[13], starch catabolic process[14], and starch biosynthetic process[15].

Why It Matters

starch draws 122 Wikipedia views per month (excipient category, ranking #2 of 8).[2] starch has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] starch is known by 75 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Reactome. plantreactome.gramene.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3h ago · Egon Willighagen · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'ba', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bn
    Openalex id → C529335014
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 8d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Zvg number → 12160
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  3. 11d ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Zvg number → 12160
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  4. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Rumigny
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  5. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2Zq0GO, 4Yw9rq
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  6. 15w ago · Peter F. Patel-Schneider · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → excipient, glucan, food ingredient +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q119896085]]"
  7. 15w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4, Q140249898
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  8. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0286272-skrob
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0286272-skrob, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
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