“…Usually, they are sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium. Procedures for the processing of potato starch to give a cation-free, hydrogen starch have been published (Winkler, 1961;Pałasin´ski & Bussek, 1964;Pałasin´ski, 1964Pałasin´ski, , 1968Pałasin´ski, , 1980Pałasin´ski & Schierbaum, 1971;Pałasin´ski et al, 1981;Gibin´ski, 1984). Hydrogen starch is unstable on storage and undergoes autohydrolysis that is catalysed by protons.…”