“…Cynanchum auriculatum Royle ex Wight (C. auriculatum starch), a number of the Asclepiadaceae family (Chai et al, 2018), has been a famous traditional Chinese food and herbal medicine for more than 1000 years due to its various bioactivities, including antitumor, antioxidant, anti-inflammation and gastroprotective effects (Ding et al, 2023;Xu et al, 2023aXu et al, , 2023b. Starches from the root of C. auriculatum have already been consumed by humans in China.…”