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Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate

food thickener

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ10528966 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate (HDP) is a modified resistant starch. It is currently used as a food additive (INS number 1442). It is approved for use in the European Union (listed as E1442), the United States, Australia, Taiwan, and New Zealand.

Editorial summary

“Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate” enters the record as food thickener. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hydroxypropyl, distarch and phosphate can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1442—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hydroxypropyl, distarch and phosphate.
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“Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hydroxypropyl, distarch and phosphate provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q10528966. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1442.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.