if you re going to use a meat thermometer you want to be sure your thermometer is accurate you can test it for accuracy easily by inserting the thermometer two inches into boiling water at sea level it should read 212 f it will be 2 f lower than 212 f for every 1000 feet above sea level
So, it makes sense maltodextrin might be safe as well. Maltodextrin is manufactured through a chemical process called hydrolysis which converts the starch in cornstarch to sugar. Maltodextrin, however, is not the only sweetener made from cornstarch.High fructose corn syrup and crystalline fructose also are derived from this source.altodextrin from Wheat. Maltodextrin can also be manufactured from other sources including corn, potato, rice or wheat. Celiacs and those with gluten sensitivity find the mention of wheat as a source alarming.
If its made from Corn Starch, then in the US where 90% of our corn product is Monsanto's poisonous BT Corn, then Maltodextrin is poison!!!! OK Chemist prove me wrong. My hemorrhoids increase to golf ball size (from nothing) and bleed profusely after each bowel movement until the BT Corn poison has left my system.