Sticky Starch

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Walkers, UK’s largest crisp manufacturer, has put forward an idea that **recycled potato peelings **could be used to create crisp packets! :hayaa:

They would accomplish this by extracting starch from potato peelings. If you think about starch - and you know how sticky starch is - if you could mass it together you could create a layer of starch and stabilise that to create crisps packets.

Starch is a carbohydrate. It is starch that makes flour thick and gluey. Cornstarch is used in cooking to make thick gravies.

Starch glues are widely used in the bonding of paper, wood and cotton. Virtually all corrugated boxboard is made with starch glues as are all brown paper grocery bags, tubes (as in toilet paper cores), and such similar items. Exact formulations vary but these are usually about 12 to 15% starch with the balance being water and minor ingredients.

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so now there's no reason for any trash to be left over, one can and should eat the packet too. :D

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lol ewwww.. i doubt they'd be edible... just biodegradable and more environmentally friendly...

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But edible packs would be awesome… it puts the gobstopper to shame… I want edible packets :dhimpak:

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It would be so cool if they were edible!! :yummy: But then…the packet would have to be covered with something to keep the edible packet clean, thus defeating the purpose…:nahi:

Anyway, it’s good that they’re taking a step towards being more environmentally friendly..:k:

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Yeah we need more companies to join the bandwagon…

:champ: