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What are different things made from the same thing/category? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 4 days ago by atheqtpie@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For example, cheese is mold and mold that grows on food after it sits for a while is also mold, but that mold is disgusting whereas cheese is edible.

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[–] kaulquappus@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago

Starch is the nourishing part in a lot of our staple foods (potatos, cereals etc.) and easily digestible. Cellulose is a major component of wood (and cotton and paper) and of what we call "fiber" in our food, the stuff we cannot digest.

Both starch and cellulose are long, sometimes interlinked chains of glucose molecules. The only difference is at which corner of each glucose molecule the next is attached.