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ENZYME RESISTANT STARCH TYPE III PRODUCTION FROM<br />

HIGH AMYLOSE RICE STARCH AND APPLICATION IN LOW<br />

GLYCEMIC INDEX BUTTER CAKE<br />

INTRODUCTION<br />

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a major cereal of Thailand. Commercial rice starch<br />

composed of up to 90 % carbohydrates and 0.5-1.5 % protein with negligible fat or<br />

dietary fiber (Juliano, 1992). Rice flour and starch become popular food ingredients<br />

since they are hypoallergenic, low fat and neutral in flavor. However, rice starch is<br />

high glycemic index (GI) food, which was low in resistant starch (RS) content.<br />

Freshly cooked rice contains below 3% of RS content, but the RS tends to increase<br />

with amylose content and processing treatments (Walter et al. 2005). RS has been<br />

recently defined as the sum of starch and its degradation products that are not<br />

absorbed in the small intestine of healthy individuals (Englyst et al. 1999). The<br />

reduced bioavailability of RS in the human gastrointestinal tract has particular<br />

significance for diabetics because it lowers the insulin response. Besides<br />

physiological benefits in human, RS has been reported to have potential use as a<br />

unique ingredient with improved oral tactile perception, taste palatability, color and<br />

texture. RS can be found in nature and its contents of RS are varied by botanical<br />

source and starch granular structure (resistant starch type I and II). In addition,<br />

resistant starch can be produced from retrogradation of gelatinized starch known as<br />

resistant starch type III (RS III).<br />

There has been previously published study to produce appropriate technology<br />

for RS III formation from high amylose rice starch and its stability in food<br />

applications. Thus, the primary purpose of this study was to improve RS III from high<br />

amylose rice starch by enzymatically-debranching process. The extents of RS III of<br />

most starches are, however, are quite low, depending on the molecular structure of<br />

starch glucans, namely amylose and amylopectin. High amylose starch produced<br />

higher resistant starch than low amylose starch. Debranching using pullulanase have<br />

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