Ohmic heating is a heating method based on the principle when an electrical current passes through food. Since this method is internal, electrical current damage occurred during heating treatment. The results of ohmic heated starch’s external structure, X-ray diffraction, DSC analysis and RVA were differed from those of conventional heating at the same temperature. Several starches changed more rigid by structure re-aggregation. This change in starch was caused by change of physical, chemical, rheological property. The rheology of ohmic heated potato and corn starch of different heated methods were compared with chemically modified starch. After gelatinization, sample starch suspension (2%, 3%) measured flow curves by rheometer. Cross-linked chemically modified starch’s shear stress was decreased with degree of substitution reversibly. Ohmic heated more dramatic, at 60℃. Potato starch’s shear stress was less than commercial high cross-linked modified starch. Flow curves of potato starches measured at 4℃, 10℃, 20℃. Showed that Ohmic heated potato starch’s shear stress ranging between 4℃ and 20℃ was narrower than modified starch. According to this study, ohmic heated potato starch can be used by decreasing viscosity agent like cross-linked modified starch.

This study was conducted to investigate the quality of pumpkin paste added with different starches during storage at 4℃ for 8 days. Pumpkin paste was evaluated for pH, carotenoid, syneresis, color values, texture, and sensory characteristics. The properties of the pumpkin paste were studied on three different starches (CON: control, MCP: cow pea starch, MMB: mung bean starch, and MSP: sweet potato starch). The initial pH of the pumpkin paste with starches were 6.13~6.16. The pH of pumpkin paste increased as the starches added increased. The carotenoid content of CON was higher in the pumpkin paste processing. The change of syneresis significantly increased with the storage period, and the amount of change of MCP and MMB added with starch was smaller than CON without the added starch. The Hunter's L-values of the pumpkin paste increased, whereas the a- and b-value decreased as the amount of starches added increased. The results of the textural analysis showed that the hardness of MCP and MMB was different from that of other pumpkin paste, showing a lower value such as 38.26 g, 38.93 g, while CON and MSP was 40.43 g and 42.49 g, respectively. A sensory evaluation indicated that starches could enhance the overall texture characteristics of pumpkin paste. In terms of the overall acceptance of the pumpkin paste, the experimental group with MCP scored the best.

Germinated brown rice flour has received much attention due to its health-functional ingredients such as dietary fibers. However, the food industry has faced challenges of using germinated brown rice flour in processed foods because it causes undesirable quality attributes such as high cooking loss and sticky texture. In this study, three different types of food additives (starches, hydrocolloids, emulsifiers) were incorporated into the formulation of extruded rice cakes and their combined effects on the cooking loss and textural properties of the germinated brown rice cakes were investigated. The addition of emulsifiers had a tendency to increase cooking loss and soften the noodle texture. Most of the starches except gelatinized and high-amylose rice flours showed similar effects to the emulsifiers. Xanthan gum, gelatin, and HPMC were positively effective in reducing the cooking loss of the rice cakes and increasing their hardness. When the ingredients were combined, the mixture of saemimyeon rice flour, HPMC, and xanthan/agar reduced the cooking loss by 66.7%. Most of all, this study provided an ingredient map that was plotted on the axis of hardness and cooking loss, depending on single and combined treatments of various ingredients.

Ohmic heating is an internal heating method based on the principle that when an electrical current passes through food, electric resistance heat is uniformly generated internally by food resistance. Previous studies indicate that the thermal properties, external structure, internal structure, and swelling power of ohmic heat treated starch of various starches, such as potato, wheat, corn, and sweet potato, differed from those of conventional heating at the same temperature. In this study, the pasting property of starch, treated with ohmic and conventional heating, were measured by RVA (Rapid Visco-Analyzer). Our results show that as the ohmic heating temperature increased, the PV (Paste Viscosity) of the starch decreased significantly, and the PT (Pasting Temperature) increased. Changes in PV and PT indicate that the swelling of starch remains unchanged by ohm heating. The HPV (Hot Paste Viscosity), CPV (Cold Paste Viscosity) and SV (Setback Viscosity) of ohmic heated starch also differed from the conventional heated starch. The pasting property is similar to the viscosity curve of common cross-linked modified starch. In this experiment, we further confirm the similarity with modified starch and its usability.

A variety of rice cultivars have been developed and their usages are being expanded to develop value added products in relation to their physicochemical properties. Cyclodextrin (CD), commonly produced from potato starch, is widely used in food and pharmaceutical industries. So far, few studies have been reported on the CD production from rice starches. In this study, the physicochemical properties of various rice starches were investigated and their substrate performance were evaluated for the CD production using cyclodextrin-glucanotransferase (CGTase). Starches of 5 Korean rice cultivars, Dodamssal (DD), Ilpummi (IP), Saegoami (SG), Sintoheukmi (SH), and Geonganghongmi (GH) were isolated by alkaline extraction method. The amylose content of DD and SG was ~66% and ~30%, respectively, while the others ranged from ~18% to ~23%. A similar amylopectin branch chain length distribution was observed in SH, GH, and IP, showing higher content of middle chains B1. SG showed higher content of the short chains A and lower content of the long chains B3+ than SH, GH, and IP, whereas DD showed opposite trends. RVA pasting properties showed the lowest values of peak viscosity, breakdown, and final viscosity in DD. The X-ray diffraction pattern of DD was the typical B-type pattern, whereas the others showed A-type patterns. Most starches had typical polygonal granular shapes, whereas DD showed round shape as revealed by SEM. In order to produce CD, starches were treated with isoamylase, CGTase and glucoamylase in a sequential order. DD showed the highest CD yield of 83% and GH showed the lowest CD yield of 70%. Based on this study, it can be concluded that the starches with high amylose contents tend to show low peak viscosity, high pasting temperature, and high CD production yield.

Ohmic heating uses electric resistance heat which occurs equally and rapidly inside food when the electrical current is transmitted into. Prior to the study, we have researched the potato starch’s thermal property changes during ohmic heating. Comparing with conventional heating, the gelatinization temperature and the range of potato starch treated by ohmic heating are increased and narrowed respectively. This result is appeared equally at wheat, corn and sweet potato starch. At this study, we treated potato, wheat, corn and sweet potato starch by ohmic/conventional method and observed change of external structure by microscope and internal structure by X-ray diffractometer. Conventional heated at 55℃ potato starch was not external structural changes. But ohmic heated potato starch is showed largely change. Some small size starch particle were broken or small particles are made of larger particle together or small particles caught up in the large particle. Changes in ohmic heated potato starch at 60℃ was greater. The inner matter came to an external particle burst inside and only the husk has been observed. The same change was observed in the rest of the starch. The change of internal structure of potato starch was measured using X-ray diffraction patterns. There was no significant difference between ohmic and conventional heating at 55℃. But almost every peak has disappeared ohmic at 60℃. Especially 5.4° peak to represent the type B was completely gone. When viewed from the above results, external changes with change in the internal crystal structure of the starch particles were largely unknown to appear. In conclusion, during ohmic heating changes of starch due to the electric field with a change in temperature by the heating was found to have progressed at the same time.

Ohmic heating uses electric resistance heat which occurs equally and rapidly inside food when the electrical current is transmitted into. Prior to the study, we have researched the potato starch’s thermal property changes during ohmic heating. Comparing with conventional heating, the gelatinization temperature and the range of potato starch treated by ohmic heating are increased and narrowed respectively. Herein, we have studied thermal property changes of wheat, corn, potato and sweet potato starch by ohmic heating as well as conventional heating. And then we measure the water holding capacity of starches. Annealing of starch is a heat treatment method heated at 3~4% below the gelatinization point. This treatment changes the starch’s thermal property. In the DSC analysis of this study, the To, Tp, Tc of all starch levels have increased, and the Tc－To narrowed. In the ohmic heating, the treatment sample is extensively changed but not with the conventional heating. From the ohmic treatment, increases from gelatinization temperature are potato (8.3℃) > wheat (5.3℃) > corn (4.9℃) > sweet potato (4.5℃), and gelatinization ranges are potato (7.9℃), wheat (7.5℃), corn (6.1℃) and sweet potato (6.8℃). In the case of conventional treatment, water holding capacity is not changed with increasing temperature but the ohmic heating is increased. Water holding capacity is related to the degree of gelatinization for starch. This result show that when treated with below gelatinization temperature, the starches are partly gelatined by ohmic treatment. When viewing the results of the above, ohmic treatment is enhanced by heating and generating electric currents to the starch structure.

국내산 녹두전분과 도토리전분을 이용하여 초산 녹두 및 초산 도토리전분을 제조하고, 이화학적 특성 및 겔의 조직감을 비교하였다. 무수 초산 6%를 반응시켜 제조한 초산 녹두와 초산 도토리전분의 %acetyl 함량은 1.88%과 1.53% 였고, 치환도는 0.07과 0.06이었다. 전분의 색도를 측정한 결과, L값과 a값은 증가하였고, b값은 감소하여 초산 처리가 전분의 색에도 영향을 주었음을 알 수 있었다. 또한 초 산전분은 전분 chain 내부에 초산기가 도입되어 원료 전분 에 비해 blue value, 팽윤력 및 용해도가 증가하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 신속호화점도계(RVA)를 이용하여 측정한 호화 특성은 녹두전분과 도토리전분의 호화온도가 각각 70.4oC, 75.7oC로 나타났고, 초산 녹두 및 초산 도토리전분은 각각64.4oC, 74.8oC로 나타나 초산 처리 시 호화온도가 감소하는 것을 알 수 있었으나, 도토리전분의 경우 초산 도토리 전분과의 유의적인 차이는 나타나지 않았다. 초산전분은 원료 전분과 최고점도, setback, breakdown에도 차이를 보였는데, 초산 녹두전분은 최고점도 164.9 RVU, setback 70.9 및 breakdown 53.4로 녹두전분의 최고점도 195.0 RVU, setback 110.6 및 breakdown 69.0에 비해 감소하였고, 초산 도토리전분은 최고점도 212.1 RVU, setback 128.7, 및 breakdown 50.3으로 도토리전분의 최고점도 198.3 RVU, setback 87.0 및 breakdown 38.2보다 증가하는 특성을 나타내었다. 초산전분으로 겔을 제조하여 조직감을 측정한 결과 초산 녹두전분은 겔을 형성하지 못하였고, 초산 도토리전분은 원료 전분 겔에 비해 경도와 탄성이 감소하였으며, 응집성, 검성, 씹힘성이 증가하여 겔이 무른 특성을 나타내었다.

가공식품의 원료로 널리 사용되고 있는 옥수수, 감자, 고구마 전분에 멥쌀 및 찹쌀로부터 분리한 전분을 일부(10-30%) 대체하여 신속점도측정기(RVA)로 호화특성을 조사하였다. 쌀 전분은 호화개시온도가 옥수수, 감자, 고구마전분에 비해 낮았고 페이스트 점도가 타 전분에 비해 낮은 경향이었다. 멥쌀 전분의 호화개시온도는 찹쌀 전분에 비해높았으며 최고점도, breakdown이 보다 높게 나타났다. 옥수수 전분에 멥쌀 및 찹쌀 전분을 10-30% 대체하여 RVA 호화양상을 측정한 결과 쌀 전분의 첨가는 RVA 최고점도, trough 점도를 증가시켰으나 최종점도에는 큰 증가세를 보이지 않아 setback은 다소 감소하는 경향이었다. 찰옥수수 전분에 쌀 전분의 첨가는 옥수수 전분과는 달리 RVA 최고점도를 감소시켰으며 최종점도는 증가세를 나타내 setback이 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 감자 전분에 쌀 전분의 첨가는 최고점도, trough 점도, 최종점도를 다소 감소시켰으나 여전히 높은 점도를 유지하는 것으로 나타났으며setback 역시 여전히 낮게 유지됨을 보여주었다. 고구마 전분에 쌀 전분의 첨가는 전분 paste의 최고점도, trough, 최종점도가 감소하는 결과를 초래하였다. 밀가루에 쌀 전분을 대체시에 멥쌀 전분은 밀가루의 페이스트 점도를 증가시키는 반면에 찹쌀 전분은 전반적으로 점도를 감소시키는 것으로 나타났다.

POCl3 농도(0.005%, 0.02%)를 달리한 가교화 쌀전분에 PO(2%, 6%, 12%)를 처리하여 가교화 후하이드록시프로필화(CLHP) 쌀전분을 제조하고, 변성된 CLHP 쌀전분의 용해도, 팽윤력, RVA, DSC 특성을 연구하였다. 팽윤력은 일반 쌀전분 보다 다소 낮은 온도에서 일찍 증가되기 시작하였으나 그 이후에 모두 낮은 수치를 보여 CLHP 쌀전분이 일반 쌀전분보다 완만한 상승을 나타내었고 용해도는 CLHP 쌀전분이 일반 쌀전분보다 전체적으로 낮은 결과를 나타내었다. RVA 분석결과 CLHP 쌀전분의 최고점도는 일반 쌀전분보다 낮아졌고 holding strength와 final viscosity는 높은 경향을 나타내었고, breakdown은 낮아지고 setback 은 높은 것으로 나타났다. DSC 분석 결과 CLHP 쌀전분의 To, Tp, Tc가 일반 쌀전분보다 낮게 나타났으며, ΔH 역시 작은 값을 보였으며 POCl3 함량에 따른 차이, 즉 가교화에 의한 차이는 크지 않았다. 따라서 가교화 후 하이드록시프로필화 한 쌀전분의 경우 RVA점도 특성은 가교화에 의한 영향이 크고 하이드록시프로필화에 따른 영향이 작다고 볼 수 있었으며, DSC열적특성은 가교화에 의한 영향으로 하이드록시프로필화가 원활하지 않았던 것으로 생각된다. 즉 인산기에 의해 강해진 전분 입자에 의해 하이드록시프로필기의 치환이 덜 일어난 것으로 판단된다.

치환제인 PO 농도(2%, 6%, 12%)를 달리하여 제조한 하이드록시프로필화 쌀전분에 가교제인 POCl3 농도(0.005%, 0.02%)를 달리하여 처리한 HPCL 쌀전분을 제조하고, HPCL 쌀전분의 용해도, 팽윤력, pasting 특성 및 열적 특성을 연구하였다. 팽윤력은 일반 쌀전분 보다 다소 낮은 온도에서 증가되기 시작하였으나 그 이후는 모두 낮은 수치를 보여 HPCL 쌀전분이 일반 쌀전분보다 완만한 상승을 나타내었다. 용해도는 HPCL 쌀전분이 일반 쌀전분보다 전체적으로 낮은 값을 나타내었다. 한편 PO 함량이 증가할수록 팽윤력과 용해도 모두 증가하는 경향을 나타내었다. RVA pasting분석 결과, HPCL 쌀전분의 경우 일반 쌀전분보다 최고 점도는 낮아졌고 holding strength와 final viscosity는 높은 경향을 나타내었으며, breakdown은 낮아지고 setback은 높은 것으로 나타났다. 열적 특성 분석 결과 HPCL 쌀전분의 경우 일반 쌀 전분보다 낮은 To, Tp, Tc 및 ΔH를 나타내었으며, POCl3 함량이 적을수록 감소폭이 더 큰 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 HPCL 쌀전분의 경우 RVA pasting 특성은 PO 첨가량, 즉 하이드록시프로필화에 따른 영향이 크다고 볼 수 있고 DSC 열적특성은 하이드록시프로필화 및 가교화 모두 영향을 미치는 것으로 생각된다.

The effects of gamma irradiation at medium dose levels on commercial starches (corn starch/CS, sweet potatostarch/SS, and potato starch/PS) were investigated in terms of its color and lipid oxidation. The CS, SS, and PS samples were irradiated at 0, 1.5, 3, 4.5 and 6 kGy by a Co-60 gamma irradiator and used for measuring Hunter's colors and TBA value. Irradiation doses applied did not cause apparent changes in Hunter color parameters between the control and irradiated groups. But, the decrease in lightness (L value) for CS and the increase in both redness (a value) for SS and yellowness (b value) for PS were observed, respectively, thereby resulting in slight increase in overall color difference (ΔE) upon irradiation. Browning intensity observed with the naked eye for gelatinized starches by irradiation doses was also gradually increased along with irradiation dose, which was more remarkable in SS. The thiobarbituric acid (TBA) values of samples showed a dose-dependant increase with ≥ 0.9964 of R2 (p<0.05).

Through the sampling four rice cultivars with differing amylose contents, the relationship between the structural and gelatinization properties of endosperm starches was analyzed. These rice varieties exhibited different chain length distribution ratio within the amylopectin cluster as well as varing amylose levels. The proportion of amylopectin short chains of in Goami cutlivars was higher than the other varieties, whereas the Goami 2 which shows amylose extender mutant properties in the endosperm showed the highest proportion of long chains. In X-ray diffraction analysis of rice starches, the Goami 2 variety displayed a B-type pattern whereas the other varieties were all A-type. Among the cultivars with high and normal rice starch levels, those with the higher amylose contents showed distinctly lower swelling. Goami 2 rice was found to have the highest onset and peak gelatinization temperature from the differential scanning calorimetry results. The four rice cultivars under analysis also showed different rates of hydrolysis by amyloglucosidase. These findings suggest that the composition and chemical structure of the starch content is a major determinant of both the gelatinization and functional properties of rice.

The survival rate and thermal, crystal, and physicochemical properties of starches in chinese yam tubers irradiated to proton beam were determined. Survival rate was decreased with increased proton beam irradiation. Amylose content of D. opposita starches from different proton beam ranged from 13.2% to 17.8%. D. opposita starch at 5 Gy showed the highest δHgel values (12.0 J/g) while D. opposita starch at 25 Gy showed the lowest values (10.1 J/g). Several parameters such as PKV (peak viscosity), HPV (Hot peak viscosity) and CPV (Cooling peak viscosity) decreased with the increase in irradiation dose. The degrees of crystallinity of the D. opposita starches at 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 Gy were 37.2, 38.3, 38.9, 39.2 and 39.9%, respectively. It might be deduced that proton beam irradiation causes changes of starch, especially at high dose irradiation.