The Pasting and Gel Textural Properties of Corn Starch in Glucose, Fructose and Maltose Syrup
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The Pasting and Gel Textural Properties of Corn Starch in Glucose, Fructose and Maltose Syrup Qingjie Sun1*, Yan Xing2, Chao Qiu1, Liu Xiong1 1 College of Food Science and Engineering, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, 2 Department of Grain Reserve and Control, Lishui Bureau of Commerce, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China Abstract The pasting and gel textural properties of corn starch in syrup at different concentrations were investigated by Rapid Visco Analyzer (RVA) and Texture profile analysis (TPA) tests. The results showed that the pasting temperatures of corn starch greatly increased, especially at higher sugar concentration. Increasing concentration of syrup caused an increase in peak, trough and final viscosity of corn starch. Peak viscosity and the disintegration rate of starch increased in the following order: fructose syrup. maltose syrup. glucose syrup. Increasing syrup concentration to 13%, 25% and 50% resulted in a lower retrogradation rate than the control. When the maltose syrup concentration increased to 50%, the retrogradation rate decreased to 14.30% from 33.38%. The highest hardness was observed when the syrup concentration was 25%. There was a particular low hardness when the concentration of syrup was 50%. The springiness of starch gels in syrup was similar at different concentrations. Citation: Sun Q, Xing Y, Qiu C, Xiong L (2014) The Pasting and Gel Textural Properties of Corn Starch in Glucose, Fructose and Maltose Syrup. PLoS ONE 9(4): e95862. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095862 Editor: Mingliang Xu, China Agricultural University, China Received December 21, 2013; Accepted March 31, 2014; Published April 22, 2014 Copyright: ß 2014 Sun et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: The authors have no support or funding to report. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. * E-mail: [email protected] Introduction [7] reported that the addition of sugars and other polyols to starch- water systems elevates the starch gelatinization temperature. Corn starch is a valuable ingredient to the food industry, being Sugars delay starch gelatinization by increasing the gelatinization widely used as a thickener, gelling agent, bulking agent and water temperature [8]. Gelatinization temperature of wheat and potato retention agent [1]. Pasting properties, gelatinization and subse- starches were increased by sucrose, glucose and glycerol in the quent textural properties of starch are key functional properties order of sucrose.glucose.glycerol. Gel hardness of wheat starch that determine many applications of starch in the food industry was increased following the order glucose.sucrose.glycerol [2]. [2]. Native starch undergoes various physicochemical changes Syrup is a kind of sticky solution containing high levels of sugar. during thermal processing. Specifically, when heated in water, Syrup and sugar is important ingredient in many starch based starch granules swell, followed by disruption of their crystalline foods. Saleem et al. [9] demonstrated material properties of semi- structures [3]. The rising viscosity has been ascribed to the swelling sweet biscuits and biscuits contained 1.3% glucose and 21% sugar. of the starch granules as they absorb water until they burst. The Secchi et al. [10] studied the shelf life of Amaretti cookies and two viscosity maximum is reached when the granules are fully swelled, batches of Amaretti cookies contained 18% and 22% sugar. A and the subsequent decrease results from the less rigid arrange- gummy confection consists of high proportions of sucrose and ment of the individual molecules released by granules rupture [4]. syrup (60%), combined with starch [11]. Subsequently, gelatinized starch molecules are re-associated in an Currently, in most studies, the effect of sugar on starch ordered structure. During this heating and cooling process, the gelatinization is investigated by using differential scanning texture of the resultant starch pastes changes, thereby forming calorimetry. The present studies on pasting properties of starch viscoelastic gels. However, the structure and property of starch are are contradictory. For example, the peak viscosity and breakdown highly dependent on its sources and also varies under different viscosity of cassava starch decreased with increase in the sugar processing conditions [5]. concentration [6], but peak viscosity and breakdown point of Recently, some studies on the pasting properties, gelatinization wheat and potato starches increased as the concentration of and textural properties of starch–sugar composites have been sucrose, glucose, and glycerol increased [2]. However, no reported. Peak viscosity, trough viscosity and final viscosity of systematic studies have been reported on textural properties of wheat and potato starches increased as the concentration of starch in sugar or syrup. Therefore the purpose of this study was to sucrose, glucose, and glycerol increased. For both starches peak investigate the influence of corn starch addition on glucose, viscosity increased in the following order: glucose. sucrose. fructose and maltose syrup at different concentrations (from 0% to glycerol [2]. Sharma et al. [6] found that the pasting temperature 50%). The pasting and textural properties were analyzed in order increased with the increase of the sugar concentration in cassava to better understand the interaction between starch and syrup. A starch–water system, while peak viscosity and breakdown viscosity Rapid Visco Analyzer (RVA) has been generally employed to decreased with the increase of the sugar concentration. Perry et al. investigate the pasting properties of starch by monitoring its PLOS ONE | www.plosone.org 1 April 2014 | Volume 9 | Issue 4 | e95862 PLOS ONE | www.plosone.org 2 April 2014 | Volume 9 | Issue 4 | e95862 Table 1. RVA values of corn starch in glucose syrup at different concentrations. Glucose syrup Pasting Peak Trough Final Breakdown/ Disintegrati-on Retrogr-adation concentr-ations/% temperature/uC viscosity/RVU viscosity/RVU viscosity/RVU RVU rate/% Setback/RVU rate/% 0 77.2060.14a 235.7962.65a 170.0461.36a 248.7561.06a 65.7564.01c 27.8861.39d 78.7162.42ab 33.3860.65d 1 77.3060.28a 244.1762.83b 173.1363.12a 261.9260.47a 71.0462.95c 29.0961.10d 88.7962.65b 36.3660.66d 3 77.1060.14a 253.2961.12c 182.0461.00a 266.0060.94a 71.2562.12c 28.1360.71d 83.9660.06ab 33.1560.12d 13 78.6060.14b 320.9260.71d 245.8361.89b 331.4260.01b 75.0961.59c 23.4060.76c 85.5966.90ab 26.6762.40c 25 82.6060.28c 413.7160.41e 360.5860.71c 425.2160.65c 53.1360.29b 12.8460.08b 64.6361.36a 15.6260.34a 50 95.0560.07d 532.4962.06f 534.1760.79d 636.8361.74d 21.6860.06a 20.3260.02a 102.6662.86c 19.2861.00b All data represent the mean of three determinations. Mean6standard deviation. 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