Foods that have a low glycaemic index or foods that contain slowly digestible starch are beneficial in controlling fluctuations in blood glucose and insulin levels. The study hypothesis is that gelatinisation of starch in structured casein networks provides a method for decreasing the digestion rate of the starch and, hence, minimising postprandial glucose fluctuations. This study examined the ...

Starch was isolated from dehydrated Horse Chestnut slices dried at temperature of 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90°C and rehydrated chips (dried at 50 and 60°C) at rehydration temperature of 25 and 40°C. Optimization was done on the basis of starch yield. The highest yield was found in the sample dried at 50°C. Physicochemical properties of optimized starch were determined. Color values indicate that the ...

the objective of this study was to determine the effects of diets having different fermentability on blood gases, blood metabolites and ruminal fermentation parameters in holstein dairy cows. four multiparous holstein dairy cows (665 ± 25 kg bw, 170 ± 7.0 dim and 15±1.5 kg of milk yield), fitted with rumen cannulae, were used in a 4×4 latin square design with 28-d periods. corn starch and sucro...

using a wide range of techniques, including differential scanning calorimetry, x-ray diffraction, rapid visco analyser and fourier transform infera red spectroscopy, some physicochemical properties of the starch fraction of six iranian rice cultivars (tarom, tarome hashemi, neda, ramezani, fajr and kamfirouzi) [1]were studied and compared. dsc data showed that starch granules of different rice ...

Four groups of young pigs (n 6) were fed a diet containing 50% maize starch as either a highly digestible waxy starch (control; 0% amylose) or one of three resistant starch (RS) diets, namely a high-amylose maize starch (HAMS; 85% amylose), this starch subjected to hydrothermal treatment (HTHAMS; 85% amylose), or a blend of HAMS and HTHAMS included in equal amounts, for 21 d. Food intake and li...

the present study used a constant level of citric acid and polyvinyl alcohol and different amounts of nanocrystalline cellulose (cnc) and tio2 nanoparticles to improve the properties of starch film. the effect of different amounts of glycerol was also examined. the results of differential scanning colorimetry demonstrated that the addition of cnc increased the melting and glass transition tempe...

Abstract Heat-moisture treatment is a physical method for starch modification to improve its functional properties depending on the application. The functional characteristics of the heat-moisture treated starch depend upon the source of starch and treatment conditions including time and temperature. The main objective of this study was to determine the functional properties of heat-moisture tr...

Streptococcus iniae is one of the few Gram positive streptococcal species capable of hydrolyzing starch. The starch hydrolysis test is essential for its identification. The biochemical reaction for starch in multi-test systems (API 20 Strep and API CH 50) is starch acidification, not starch hydrolysis. Furthermore, API systems do not contain S. iniae in their databases, yet fish disease researc...