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What does retrogradation mean?

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  1. Motion in a retrograde manner.
  2. Decline, degradation.
  3. (chemistry) A reaction that takes place in gelatinized starch when the amylose and amylopectin chains realign themselves, largely responsible for bread becoming stale.
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In truth, however, the retrogradation was much slighter than appeared on the surface.
It reduces starch retrogradation after baking and thus provides baked goods with improved and longer-lasting freshness.
For example, Venus does not go into retrograde in the same month or in the same sign of the zodiac from one retrogradation to the next.
But adding chia inhibited the kinetics of amylopectin retrogradation during storage, which would be directly related to delays in bread staling.
The arc of retrogradation is the angular distance thus apparently traversed.
Moreover, the distance that the planet travels between one retrogradation and the next is quite variable.

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