Aqueous suspensions of uncooked starch are stabilized by adding to the suspension a minor amount of a hydrophilic polymeric viscosity-increasing agent effective to prevent dilatancy and to increase the viscosity of the suspension so that settlement of starch particles during storage and transportation...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US4820380?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US4820380 - Stabilized starch suspensions
