“…Modified starch overcomes the shortcomings of natural starch, such as poor freeze-thaw stability, low solubility, easy retrogradation, and low transparency, further expanding its range of applications in related industries ( Masina et al., 2017 ; Wang et al., 2020c ). In food processing, modified starch is widely added to food as a partial fat substitute to provide the shape, taste, thickening, gelling, adhesiveness, and stability required by the food system while avoiding the perception that high-fat meat products will cause cancer ( Heinen et al., 2009 ; Kapelko-Żeberska et al., 2015 ; Kaur et al., 2018 ) ( Figure 1 B). Starch is also used in the alcoholic beverage industry and as a feedstock in bioethanol production for clean energy ( Zeeman et al., 2010 ) ( Figure 1 E).…”