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By Paula Figoni
Published 2003
Recall from earlier in the chapter that starch molecules are tightly packed in an orderly fashion inside starch granules. When starch granules are placed in cold water, the starch molecules inside the granules attract water and the granules swell slightly. If the water is heated, the starch granules undergo an irreversible process called gelatinization.
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