Other starches.

Abstract This chapter discusses the extraction, physiochemical (chemical composition, amylose and amylopectin content), structural (granular morphology, X-ray diffraction pattern, starch crystallinity, and amylose and amylopectin structure), functional (swelling pattern, solubility, viscosity, rheological properties and retrogradation) and thermal properties, and digestibility of starches from minor tuber crops (e.g., arrowroot, Curcuma spp., Canna edulis [C. indica], Chinese water chestnut [Eleocharis dulcis], chayote [Sechium edule], Pachyrhizus ahipa, Oxalis tuberosa, Arracacia xanthorrhiza, Lilium spp.).