Distarch glycerol

E1411 cross-links starch chains through glycerol rather than phosphate. It is rare on European labels, since the phosphate versions do the same job more cheaply. Whichever bridge is used, the result is a polysaccharide, and this axis counts chains of ten units and fewer.

E1411 uses glycerol as the bridge instead of phosphate. The bridging agent changes; the consequence does not - two long chains tied together are further from an oligosaccharide than either was alone.