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2.7 Rice starch digestibility<br />

Starch that is resistant to digestion is thought to offer humans some<br />

protection from the development of various chronic diseases (Topping and Clifton,<br />

2001). There have been several reports that have linked amylose content to rice<br />

starch digestibility (Goddard et al. 1984 and Noda et al. 2003). However, it has been<br />

found that similar hydrolysis of raw starch by amylase occurred with waxy and non<br />

waxy rice cultivars. Perez et al. (1991) reported that rice cultivars with similar<br />

amylose content varied in starch digestibility, the difference being associated with<br />

other properties, such as GT, cooking time, amylograph consistency, and volume<br />

expansion upon cooking. Therefore, amylose content alone is not a predictor of starch<br />

digestion rate (Perez et al. 1991). Zhang et al. (1996) showed that japonica waxy rice<br />

flour with different X-ray diffraction patterns differed in starch digestion, the percent<br />

digestion of group II flour was higher than group I flour, either with glucoamylase or<br />

with alpha-amylase. The authors suggested that the starch in group II had a looser<br />

structure arrangement, at the molecular level, than did those in group I. These allowed<br />

the enzymes to penetrate rapidly into the starch granules in group II. Perhaps, then,<br />

amylopectin may play a role in conferring the rate of rice starch digestion.<br />

Processing techniques are also reported to impact the rate of rice starch<br />

digestion. Parboiling reportedly decreases rice starch rate of digestion (Tetens et al.<br />

1997). Rashmi and Urooj (2003) found that the steaming of rice created more resistant<br />

starch than boiling or pressure cooking. Storage under refrigeration also has been<br />

reported to slow the rate rice starch digestion (Frei et al. 2003). Kim et al. (2006)<br />

studied the effects of amylose content, autoclaving, parboiling, extrusion, and postcooking<br />

treatments on resistant starch (RS) content of different rice cultivars. They<br />

found that the extent of RS formation was significantly influenced by the amylose<br />

content of rice, volume of water used for cooking and cooling after cooking.<br />

The higher-amylose rice variety had more resistant starch than the loweramylose<br />

variety. The amounts of RS were between 0.1 to 0.26g/ 100g DM for raw<br />

rice and 0.13 to 0.14g/100g DM for extruded rice. The resistant starch formation in<br />

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