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Maltodextrin is also called water soluble dextrin or enzyme dextrin. It is made of all kinds of starch, which is hydrolyzed, purified and dried by enzymatic process. Its raw materials are corn and rice with starch. It can also be refined starch, such as corn starch, wheat starch, cassava starch, etc. In 1970, veberbacher defined maltodextrin as follows: the product with starch as raw material and de value below 20% after controlled hydrolysis is called maltodextrin to distinguish the dextrin product generated by starch pyrolysis. The main properties of maltodextrin are directly related to the hydrolysis rate. The de value not only indicates the degree of hydrolysis, but also is an important index to master the product characteristics. Understanding the relationship between de value and physical properties of maltodextrin series products is conducive to the correct selection and application of various maltodextrin series products.