What's the difference between blancmange and cornstarch?
Blancmange
Definition:
(n.) A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.
Example Sentences:
(1) As well as being a pallid substitute for actual creativity – a device for making grey business wonks mistake themselves for David Bowie at his experimental peak – these books are the direct suit-and-tie office-dick equivalent of those embarrassing motivational self-help tomes that prey on the insecure, promising to turn their life around before dissolving into a blancmange of "strategies" and "systems" and above all excruciating metaphors.
(2) "One of the problems engaging with this 'big society' idea is that it is such a blancmange.
(3) The flesh rolled away like blancmange, soft and gassy with putrefaction.
(4) With developers calling the shots, while planners egg them on, the future of the City’s silhouette looks set to be a lumpy blancmange.
(5) Ruby's looks less like a brain and more like a dropped blancmange.
(6) By the time they had raced to 4-0, there were hardly a pair of buttocks that remained in their paid-for seats, and Andy Murray rivalled any supporter in the place for eyes-out commitment as French resistance was reduced to blancmange – or very nearly a limp bagel.
(7) However, the man they once cruelly nicknamed Mr Flanby, after a wobbly and bland blancmange-like desert, the man the opposition accuses of political vacillation and indecision, showed he could indeed show resolve when it was called for.
(8) After the initial relief subsided, I began to feel progressively worse, like a blancmange sliding off a plate.
(9) "Miss, miss," said the boy, "they've given me blancmange, and I don't like blancmange!"
(10) If Hollande came across as inoffensive, indecisive and a tad wobbly, hence the Flanby nickname after a blancmange-like dessert, behind the scenes he was working to build a solid power base of popular support among socialist voters across France.
(11) Within this general lumpy mould – which has the look of a mauled blancmange from some angles – he has started slicing away more specific areas.
(12) "We were allowed only one spoonful of blancmange each because they didn't know how long it would have to last."
(13) If you want to drink real ale while listening to 1980s synth classics from Sparks and Blancmange, this is the place to do it.
(14) Photograph: Hayes Davidson “It looks like a raspberry blancmange,” says Richards.
(15) It was a rare attack from the blancmange-coloured shirts on a grey north London afternoon, with the piles of displaced earth and the huge steel armature of the new stadium now rising above the open corner at one end.
Cornstarch
Definition:
(n.) Starch made from Indian corn, esp. a fine white flour used for puddings, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of oral cornstarch supplements enabled the child to maintain normoglycemia and was associated with clinical and biochemical improvement.
(2) When the P64.8 diet was progressively diluted with cornstarch, hamsters increased their intake of this diet fraction, but protein intake nevertheless declined.
(3) A basal corn-cornstarch-soybean meal diet was formulated to contain .55% lysine.
(4) Two nurses suffered anaphylaxis to cornstarch glove powder.
(5) Solid excipients, cornstarch, and talcum powder when injected intra-arterially decreased flow, and vascular obstruction was shown angiographically.
(6) We report the successful use of raw cornstarch to maintain normoglycemia in two children with nesidioblastosis.
(7) Raw cornstarch administration consistently maintained blood glucose levels in the normal range.
(8) The sucrose-fed group had a greater 4-d excretion of tritium (urinary + fecal) than did the invert sugar- or cornstarch-fed groups (P less than 0.01).
(9) It is concluded that cornstarch, as used on surgical gloves, caused peritoneal adhesions and should therefore be removed before surgery.
(10) Either a corn-soy diet or a cornstarch-soy diet was used as the basal diet in the various studies.
(11) A range of cornstarch fermentation rates was found with suspensions from 20 human subjects.
(12) Litter size at d 28 was greater (P less than .07) for sows fed cornstarch than for sows fed tallow.
(13) The animals were fed a protein-free diet that consisted of 79.7% cornstarch, 10% sucrose, 3% Alphafloc (a source of cellulose), 3% canola oil and a vitamin-mineral premix.
(14) Cornstarch therapy was associated with maintenance of normoglycemia, increased growth velocity, and decreased serum aminotransferase concentrations in all patients.
(15) A slowly absorbed starch such as cornstarch may be an effective component in dietary management of this disorder.
(16) The two main conclusions from this study are that thyroid hormone metabolism is altered by iron deficiency regardless of food intake and that the best purified rodent diet for this type of study would contain a mixture of carbohydrate types to avoid the stimulation of thyroxine monodeiodinase by a 70% cornstarch diet.
(17) In contrast to its effects when mixed in the raw cornstarch, mixed in the cooked cornstarch diet, acarbose consumption was not accompanied by any significant fecal losses of dietary starch.
(18) Azotemic subtotally nephrectomized Sprague-Dawley rats were pair-fed a 30% casein diet supplemented with a 10% keto acid mixture (n = 10) or 10% cornstarch (n = 10) for 18 weeks.
(19) Preliminary experience with the use of sodium bicarbonate as a substitute for cornstarch derivatives to "lubricate" surgical gloves has proved promising in eliminating the hazard of starch peritonitis.
(20) Maximum plasma glucose concentrations in the sturgeon fed fructose, galactose, sucrose, lactose, dextrin, raw cornstarch or cellulose were not significantly different.