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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Effects of endosperm texture and cooking conditions on the in vitro starch digestibility of sorghum and maize flours
Journal of Cereal Science, Volume 42, No. 1, Year 2005
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The effects of endosperm vitreousness, cooking time and temperature on sorghum and maize starch digestion in vitro were studied using floury and vitreous endosperm flours. Starch digestion was significantly higher in floury sorghum endosperm than vitreous endosperm, but similar floury and vitreous endosperm of maize. Cooking with 2-mercaptoethanol increased starch digestion in both sorghum and maize, but more with sorghum, and more with vitreous endosperm flours. Increasing cooking time progressively reduced starch digestion in vitreous sorghum endosperm but improved digestibility in the other flours. Pressure-cooking increased starch digestion in all flours, but markedly more in vitreous sorghum flour; probably through physical disruption of the protein matrix enveloping the starch. Irrespective of vitreousness or cooking condition, the alpha-amylase kinetic constant (k) for both sorghum and maize flours remained similar, indicating that differences in their starch digestion were due to factors extrinsic to the starches. SDS-PAGE indicated that the higher proportion of disulphide bond-cross-linked prolamin proteins and more extensive polymerisation of the prolamins on cooking, resulting in polymers of M r>100k, were responsible for the lower starch digestibility of the vitreous sorghum endosperm flour. © 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Ezeogu, Lewis Iheanacho
South Africa, Pretoria
University of Pretoria
Nigeria, Naukka
University of Nigeria
Duodu, K. G.
South Africa, Pretoria
University of Pretoria
Taylor, John R.N.
South Africa, Pretoria
University of Pretoria
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Citations: 154
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 2
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10.1016/j.jcs.2005.02.002