Industrially, starch is obtained from cereal grains such as wheat and maize (corn), or from tubers, such as potatoes, tapioca, and arrowroot, or from the pith of the sago plant. By far, the larger part of the starch is obtained from maize, wheat, potato, and tapioca. Starch is present in almost all the tissue such as leaves, roots, tubers, seeds, stems, flowers, etc. of green plants however there are some plants which are grown commercially for the starch which includes cereal such as wheat, corn, sorghum, and rice, tuber mainly potato, root like tapioca and arrowroot, stem of sago, and legume crops mainly pea. Worldwide production of an overview on applications of starch 142 starch is depending on the use of cereals as the raw materials. Normally starch from Conventional sources of starch include sources like cereal corps and legume seeds, tuber crops, and some root tubers is used in large amount in the field of pharmacy. Due to unbelievable increasing demand for starch some nonconventional starch resources have been investigated in recent Years.