ISSN:
1750-3841
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
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Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
The objective was to study interaction of salt and sucrose with raw starch as determined from water retention at a given aw. NaCI-starch mixtures were 5:95, 10:90, 15:85, and 25:75. Sucrose-starch mixtures were 1:9, 2:8, 1:1, and 9:1. Equilibration was against salt slushes over the water activity range 0.33 to 0.97. At each aw, as the solute concentration increased above zero, the amount of interacted solute rose to a maximum and then, in contrast to previous findings with protein, declined to zero. For each solute, saturation aw showed the highest amount of interaction at any solute concentration; the interaction decreased with increasing aw. At maximum, 87.2% of total NaCl and 56.3% of the total sucrose interacted with starch. These desorption data showed less interaction than previously found for absorption.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2621.1986.tb11152.x
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