Modified starch is literally a kind of powerful vegetable glue which derives from different plants, corn especially. In case in which it is extracted from GMO plants, it is GMO too.
Why it is so used in food for sale?
Because it allows producers to produce with lower costs.
In fact it allows to reduce and substitute in the recipe nutritious substances for waters. Here at “natura è piacere” we do not use it.
First of all because its use is not authorized by organic section because it is obtained through production processes that deprive farming product of their nutritious natural substances. We do not use modified starch- even though according to European EFSA it is not dangerous for health- because we believe that eating a real glue (in part not digestible by our intestine) is not recommended for our health.
It is important to consider the fact that the wide use of modified starch in food means that we eat it in large quantity every day. We do not use modified starch also because it substitutes the noble part of food to which it is added to. For this reason it impoverishes nutritious contribution related to vitamins, proteins, mineral salts and so on. If high quality of raw materials are used, it is not necessary to unify all recipe components with powerful glue!
This is why “natura è piacere” and all our products- included conventional ones- do not contain modified starch.