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

Funding

This work is supported by the Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)-Guangdong Joint Foundation Key Project (U1501214), the National Key Research and Development Programa of China (2016YFD04012021), YangFan Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Project (No. 2014YT02S029), the Key R&D Projects of Zhongshan (2014A2FC217), the R&D Projects of Guangdong Province (2014B090904047), NSFC (31271824), the Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou (201607010109), the Innovative Projects for Universities in Guangdong Province (2015KTSCX006), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2015ZZ106). Part of this research was undertaken on the SAXS/WAXS beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, Victoria, Australia.

FundersFunder number
innovative projects for Universities in Guangdong Province2015KTSCX006
Key R&D Projects of Zhongshan2014A2FC217
National Key Research and Development Programa of China2016YFD04012021
Guangdong Province Introduction of Innovative R&D Team31271824, 2014B090904047
Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program2014YT02S029
National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaU1501214
Guangzhou Science and Technology Program key projects201607010109
Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities2015ZZ106

    Keywords

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

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Analytical Chemistry
    • Food Science

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