different between amylose vs retrogradation

English

amylo- +? ose

amylose (countable and uncountable, plural amyloses)

(biochemistry) The soluble form of starch (the insoluble form being amylopectin) that is a linear polymer of glucose.

retrograde +? -ation

retrogradation (countable and uncountable, plural retrogradations)

Motion in a retrograde manner.
Decline, degradation.
(chemistry) A reaction that takes place in gelatinized starch when the amylose and amylopectin chains realign themselves, largely responsible for bread becoming stale.
The major reason that bread stales is not moisture loss, but rather a process called retrogradation, in which the starch molecules in the bread crystallize.

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