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Synchrotron X-ray scattering analysis of the interaction between corn starch and an exogenous lipid during hydrothermal treatment

  • Ernesto Hernández-Hernández
  • , Carlos A. Ávila-Orta
  • , Benjamin S. Hsiao
  • , Javier Castro-Rosas
  • , José A. Gallegos-Infante
  • , Juliana Morales-Castro
  • , L. Araceli Ochoa-Martínez
  • , Carlos A. Gómez-Aldapa
  • Center for Research in Applied Chemistry
  • Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos
  • Instituto Tecnológico de

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Abstract

Lipids have an important effect on starch physicochemical properties. There exist few reports about the effect of exogenous lipids on native corn starch structural properties. In this work, a study of the morphological, structural and thermal properties of native corn starch with L-alpha-lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC, the main phospholipid in corn) was performed under an excess of water. Synchrotron radiation, in the form of real-time small and wide-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS/WAXS), was used in order to track structural changes in corn starch, in the presence of LPC during a heating process from 30 to 85 °C. When adding LCP, water absorption decreased within starch granule amorphous regions during gelatinization. This is explained by crystallization of the amylose-LPC inclusion complex during gelatinization, which promotes starch granule thermal stability at up to 95 °C. Finally, a conceptual model is proposed for explaining the formation mechanism of the starch-LPC complex.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)69-75
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Cereal Science
Volume54
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2011

Keywords

  • Amylose-lipid complex
  • Corn starch
  • Exogenous lipids
  • Gelatinization

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