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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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