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2.6.1 Factors affecting rice starch retrogradation<br />

The rate of rice starch retrogradation depends on a number of<br />

variables, including the structures and ratio of amylose and amylopectin, storage<br />

temperature, starch concentration, botanical sources of the starch and the presence and<br />

concentration of other ingredients, such as surfactants and salts. The retrogradation<br />

kinetics of starch has received wide attention though the underlying mechanism of<br />

retrogradation has not been concluded. Lai et al. (2000) reported the retrogradation<br />

kinetics of pure amylopectin from 13 rice cultivars. Generally, the amylopectin<br />

systems showed two stages of retrogradation behavior during early (< 7 days) and late<br />

(>7 days) storage. Correlation analysis suggested that the kinetics of early stage<br />

retrogradation were more correlated than the late stage retrogradation with the<br />

number-average molecular weight and chain lengths of the amylopectin molecules.<br />

The proportion of short, long and extra long chain fractions appeared to have greater<br />

effects on the enthalpy changes and late stage kinetics than the other structural factors.<br />

1) Structures and ratio of amylose and amylopectin<br />

Tako and Hizukuri (2000) proposed some mechanisms for rice<br />

starch retrogradations which are based on the formation of hydrogen bonding at<br />

various levels. It is assumed that intramolecular hydrogen bonding may take place<br />

between OH-6 and the adjacent hemiacetal oxygen atom of the D-glucosyl residues.<br />

Intermolecular hydrogen bonding my take place between OH-2 of the amylopectin<br />

and an adjacent OH-6 of the amylose. Another intermolecular hydrogen bond may<br />

form between OH-2 of a D-glucose residue of the former molecule and OH-6 of a Dglucose<br />

residue of short side chain (A and B1) of the latter molecule. After saturation<br />

of intermolecular hydrogen bonding between amylose and amylopectin molecules, an<br />

intermolecular association may also take between amylopectin molecules through<br />

hydrogen bonding. The mechanism of retrogradation is complicated because<br />

retrogradation rate may vary from one cultivar to another due to differences in the<br />

proportion and interaction of amylopectin and amylose, chain length distribution, and<br />

molecular size of branched molecules (Hizukuri, 1986). The 1,4–linked α-D-glucan<br />

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