food products such as nut meats ready to eat cereals snack foods of many types confections including soft pan items chocolate marshmallows pressed mints chocolate pan pie and rolled pieces molded chocolate bars coffee beans processed and unprocessed meats and the like the starch product also may be used in connection with industrial and consumer products such as paper corrugating board cardboard boxes detergents cleaners and the like and in pharmaceutical applications such as tablets tablet coatings capsules agglomeration ingredients and so forth the product may be used in connection with other ingredients including surfactants polymers fillers and other ingredients as may be desired in a given application as surfactants it is contemplated that those such as mono and di glycerides di acetyl tartaric esters of fatty acids propylene glycol mono and di esters of fatty acids polysorbate 60 calcium or sodium stearoyl 2 lactylate lactyl stearate sodium stearoyl fumarate succinylate mono glycerides ethoxylated mono and di glycerides and the like may be used in certain applications the starch may be used in conjunction with other natural polymers such as gums cellulose derivatives starch derivatives starch hydrolysis products microorganism products or with synthetic polymers such as polyvinyl alcohol polyvinylacetate polyurethane polystyrene polyvinyl.