And science can explain why. The minute cookies and other baked goods like bread and cake exit the oven, a process called starch retrogradation begins. Before baking, the neatly arranged starch ...

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the amylose and amylopectin chains rearrange themselves and form structured regions within the starch, creating a dense and rigid texture. This transformation is called retrogradation. So when ...