“…Nevertheless, climate change, sustainability awareness, and the development of the circular bio‐economy concept (Garcia‐Peréz et al, 2021; Hassan et al, 2019; Markande et al, 2021; Tan & Lamers, 2021; Zambrano, Marquez, et al, 2021a) has made this inviable, according to stakeholders. Therefore, possible scenarios of food shortages due to climate change (Mika et al, 2018; Throup et al, 2021) have raised the interest in nonconventional sources of edible carbohydrates (Asim et al, 2021; Pereira et al, 2021; Throup et al, 2021). As a result, the current trend is to use crop‐derived starch to produce biocompatible and food‐grade surfactants (Bhadani et al, 2020).…”