Dietary Substance Found in Potatoes and Cereals
This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from Small World, Group 681, Puzzle 5 (Miniature Cars).
Question is: Dietary Substance Found in Potatoes and Cereals
and the answer is: STARCH
Word Meaning:
STARCH — (uncountable) A widely diffused vegetable substance, found 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.
Definitions from Wiktionary.