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A DSC study of the effects of sugars on thermal properties of rice starch gels before and after aging

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Thermal characterization of gelatinized binary rice starch-water and ternary starch-sugar-water gels before and after aging was carried out using differential scanning calorimetry. The glass transition temperature of the maximally freeze-concentrated solution (T′g) in both fresh and aged gels was observed to decrease progressively with increasing sugar concentration. Aging of the gels generally shiftedT′g to higher temperatures, but had little or no effect on the ice melting peak temperature (T m). The presence of various sugars could either accelerate or retard starch (amylopectin) recrystallization, depending on the type and concentration of sugar, as well as on starch/water ratio. A hypothesis based on the dual antiplasticizing-plasticizing effects of sugars was postulated to explain the observed effects. Of the sugars studied, xylose and fructose appeared to display exceptional retardative and accelerative effects, respectively, on retrogradation.

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  1. Food Technology Division, School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800, Penang, Malaysia

    C. C. Seow, C. H. Teo & C. K. Vasanti Nair

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This study was funded by a Sixth Malaysia Plan R&D grant under the Intensification of Research Priority Areas (IRPA) Program of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Malaysia. We thank Dr. Harry Levine and Dr. Louise Slade for giving us the opportunity to contribute a paper to this special issue of JTA.

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Seow, C.C., Teo, C.H. & Nair, C.K.V. A DSC study of the effects of sugars on thermal properties of rice starch gels before and after aging. Journal of Thermal Analysis 47, 1201–1212 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01992823

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