Milling Process of Starch

Milling of cereal grains is a very important process for cereal and feed industry. It is accompanied with starch granules damage, starch crystalline structure disruption, and starch molecules change, and therefore performance of the finished products is subject to milling process. This chapter reviews the development of commercial and laboratory mills system, discusses the latest discovery on starch multi-scale structure, and gives a review of starch structure damage at granule, crystalline, and molecular level. One case of study is related to effect of wheat starch damage in bread baking and importance of starch damage to wheat flour milling industry. Quality control and test of starch damange in flour milling are introduced.