Nutrition

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Glossary

Glucose syrup

  Glucose syrup is a purified aqueous solution of nutritive saccharides obtained from edible starches having a dextrose equivalent greater than 20. It is primarily a food industry ingredient, belongs into starch hydrolysates or starch syrups. To produce glucose syrup, starch granules are extracted from vegetable raw materials (mostly corn,...

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Glossary

MON 810

  Mon810 is a variety of genetically modified corn developed by Monsanto Corporation, marketed under the name YieldGard. It contains a gene from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis that expresses Bt toxin with toxic effects on insects of the order Lepidoptera. It is permitted for use in the EU in 1998...