Insights into the multi-scale structure and digestibility of heat-moisture treated rice starch

Hongwei Wang, Yufan Liu, Ling Chen, Xiaoxi Li, Jun Wang, Fengwei Xie

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Abstract

The digestibility and structural changes of rice starch induced by heat-moisture treatment (HMT) were investigated, and the relationships among the moisture content–starch structure–starch digestibility were revealed. HMT could simultaneously disorder and reassemble the rice starch molecules across multi-scale lengths and convert some fractions of rapidly-digestible starch (RDS) into slowly-digestible starch (SDS) and resistant starch (RS). In particular, the HMT rice starch with less than 30% moisture content showed a higher SDS + RS content (25.0%). During HMT, SDS and RS were preferably formed by the degraded starch molecules with Mw between 4 × 105 and 4 × 106 g/mol, single helices and amylose-lipids complexes that were formed by degraded starch chains with higher thermal stability and crystalline lamellae with greater thicknesses. Thus, our research suggests a potential approach using HMT to control the digestion of starch products with desired digestibility.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)323-329
Number of pages7
JournalFood Chemistry
Volume242
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Heat moisture treatment
  • In vitro digestibility
  • Starch
  • Structural changes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Food Science

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