Volume 76, Issue 9-10 2300301
Research Article

Preparation of Multi-Grain Flour with High Content of Resistant Starch and the Mechanism Underlying the Improved Digestion Resistance

Qianying Ma

Qianying Ma

College of Food Engineering and Nutritional Science, Shaanxi Normal University, No. 620 West Chang'an Avenue, Chang'an District, Xi'an, 710119 China

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Xiaolong Wang

Corresponding Author

Xiaolong Wang

College of Food Engineering and Nutritional Science, Shaanxi Normal University, No. 620 West Chang'an Avenue, Chang'an District, Xi'an, 710119 China

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Xiaoyang Zou

Xiaoyang Zou

College of Food Engineering and Nutritional Science, Shaanxi Normal University, No. 620 West Chang'an Avenue, Chang'an District, Xi'an, 710119 China

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Xinyu Zhang

Xinyu Zhang

College of Food Engineering and Nutritional Science, Shaanxi Normal University, No. 620 West Chang'an Avenue, Chang'an District, Xi'an, 710119 China

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Liang Zou

Liang Zou

School of Food and Biological Engineering, Chengdu University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610106 China

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Xinzhong Hu

Xinzhong Hu

College of Food Engineering and Nutritional Science, Shaanxi Normal University, No. 620 West Chang'an Avenue, Chang'an District, Xi'an, 710119 China

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First published: 28 March 2024
Citations: 1

Abstract

To acquire the optimum treatment strategy that leads to the highest yield of resistant starch (RS) in multigrain flour (MF), wheat flour, whole oat flour, and whole buckwheat flour are used to prepare antidigestive MF by using pullulanase debranching combining heat–moisture treatment (P-HMT). Based on the single factor tests and response surface analysis, the optimum conditions for the treatment of MF are determined as follows: pullulanase 62.6 U g−1, autoclaving 21.3 min, HMT at 100 °C, and 30.4% water content for 6.0 h. Under these conditions, the yield of RS in the flour reaches 77.42%. P-HMT causes protein denaturation, starch gelatinization, and flour clumps in MF, facilitating starch recrystallization and interactions among short-chain starch, monomeric proteins, and lipids. All these findings are further confirmed by the conversion of starch crystal from A-type to B+V-type, the improvement of starch short-range molecular order, and the presence of more binary/ternary complexes in treated flour. In brief, the starch digestion resistance improvement in the treated flour is attributed to the recrystallization of short-chain starch and interactions between starch and protein/lipid.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Data Availability Statement

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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