Starch vs. Farina — What's the Difference?

Starch or amylum is a polymeric carbohydrate consisting of numerous glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds. This polysaccharide is produced by most green plants for energy storage.

Fine meal prepared from cereal grain and various other plant products, often used as a cooked cereal or in pudding.

An odourless, tasteless white substance occurring widely in plant tissue and obtained chiefly from cereals and potatoes. It is a polysaccharide which functions as a carbohydrate store and is an important constituent of the human diet.

A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

Powder or spray made from starch and used before ironing to stiffen fabric or clothing

A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.

Stiffness of manner or character

Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk, more commonly known by the trademark name Cream of Wheat.

Stiffen (fabric or clothing) with starch

A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

(of a boxer) defeat (an opponent) by a knockout

Pollen.

A naturally abundant nutrient carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, found chiefly in the seeds, fruits, tubers, roots, and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice, and varying widely in appearance according to source but commonly prepared as a white amorphous tasteless powder.

Fine meal made from cereal grain especially wheat; often used as a cooked cereal or in puddings

Any of various substances, such as natural starch, used to stiffen cloth, as in laundering.

Starches Foods having a high content of starch, as rice, breads, and potatoes.

Stiff behavior

Vigor; mettle

To stiffen with starch.

(uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found especially in seeds, bulbs and tubers, as extracted (e.g. from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) in the form of a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.

Carbohydrates, as with grain and potato based foods.

(uncountable) A stiff, formal manner; formality.

(uncountable) Fortitude.

(countable) Any of various starch-like substances used as a laundry stiffener

To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.

Stiff; precise; rigid.

Stiff; precise; rigid.

A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.

Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.

To stiffen with starch.

A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles

Stiffen with starch;