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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 323-329 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Food Chemistry |
Volume | 242 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Heat moisture treatment
- In vitro digestibility
- Starch
- Structural changes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Analytical Chemistry
- Food Science