Its multifunctional role continues to grow as consumer demands for organic, non-GMO and gelatin-free products stimulate specific applications for a greater range of starches.

“The most pure and white starch is made of the rootes of the Cuckoo-pint, but most hurtful for the hands of the laundresse that have the handling of it, for it chappeth, blistereth, and maketh the hands rough and rugged and withall smarting.”