Physicochemical, Micromeritics, Biomedical, and Pharmaceutical Applications of Assam Bora Rice Starch

Abstract

In current times the utilization of the natural starches in various aspects like as pharmaceutical, biomedical, food materials, etc. due to their uniqueness properties. Assam bora rice starch is a promising biopolymer as well as bio-carrier in different aspects. Natural starch as well as modified starch was being used abundantly as natural polymers in different drug delivery systems. The prime advantages of using natural starches are low cost, easily available, renewability, etc. Starch obtained from Assam bora rice is having potential applications in pharmaceutical industries such as excipients and binder and disintegrates in tablet formulations, as an active drug carrier in nano, microformulations, and controlled drug delivery formulations. Assam bora rice starch as a native starch is having maleate particles which are often used for drug delivery carrier in the field biomedical application. The reasons behind this were due to their non-toxicity, biocompatibility, and inexpensive nature. In this chapter, we specially focus on Assam bora rice starch to profile its different applications along with physicochemical and powder flow properties which drastically affect the compactness of the starch granules.