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Bing Wang1, Huixin Zheng1, Yang Yang1
1College of Food Engineering, Harbin University of Commerce, Harbin 150028, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
In order to delay the retrogradation of rice starch, the effects of three different chain length fatty acids (lauric acid, myristic acid and palmitic acid) on rice starch were studied. The fatty acids with longer carbon chains had strong steric hindrance and hydrophobicity, which formed a more compact structure in the helical cavity of amylose, and significantly reduced degree of expansion, migration of water, short-range ordered structure, number of double helical structures and crystallinity. These structural changes endowed the rice starch-long chain fatty acid complexes with better gel viscosity, liquid fluidity and thermal stability than in the rice starch-short chain fatty acid complexes. The results showed that fatty acids with longer chain length inhibited the retrogradation of rice starch, most obviously when 5% palmitic acid was added. This study provides an important reference for the processing of rice starch-based foods.
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