Starch prepared from the grains of corn ; used in cooking as a thickener .
用玉米颗粒制成的淀粉，在烹饪中用作增稠剂。
Its maily advantage is solidification and stabilization , and it can form the complex . It can be used as thickener , coagulator , deflocculant , emulsifying agent , antistaling agent and stabilizer .
For example , titanium dioxide ( a naturally occurring mineral often used as a pigment or thickener ) is considered to be safe when put into a viscous mixture , such as in sunscreen or toothpaste .
例如，二氧化钛（一种天然矿物，可用做着色剂或粘稠剂）在粘稠状混合物中是安全的，如防晒露或牙膏。
But a company sales manager , geng xiujuan , said xuzhou anying was only a middleman , buying the gluten , commonly used as a thickener in pet food , from companies in neighboring provinces and selling it to a separate trading company .
The methods such as distn . And silica gel column chromatography were used to sep. the various components of the thickener , and the ir spectrometry , gc-ms combination and esi-ms were used to certify the structures of the different components .
