Definition of "erythrodextrin" []

• A dextrin which gives a red colour with iodine. (noun)

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• "Brukner regards the red color as resulting from a mixture of erythrodextrin, and the greater solubility of this substance in water."
• "If a mixture of filtered potato starch paste and erythrodextrin is dried in a watch glass covered with a thin pellicle of collodion, and a drop of iodine solution placed on the latter, it penetrates very slowly through the pellicle, the dextrin becoming first tinctured with red, and the granulose afterward with blue."
• "If, on the other hand, no erythrodextrin is used, the diffusion of the iodine causes at once simply a blue coloring."