
LWT - Food Science and Technology 204 (2024) 116424
Available online 1 July 2024
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Oleic acid and whey protein reduced the digestion of oxidized and/or
hydroxypropyl starches by changing their properties and microstructure
Jing Sun
c
, Shuang-yi Zheng
c
, Hai-long Zhang
a
,
b
,
c
,
**
, Run-jiao Zhang
c
, Shen-sheng Xiao
a
,
b
,
c
,
Xue-dong Wang
a
,
b
,
c
,
***
, Jing Du
a
,
b
,
c
,
*
a
Key Laboratory for Deep Processing of Major Grain and Oil, Ministry of Education, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, 430023, China
b
Hubei Key Laboratory for Processing and Transformation of Agricultural Products, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, 430023, China
c
College of Food Science and Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, 430023, China
ARTICLE INFO
Keywords:
Modied starches
Starch digestibility
Starch-based complexes
Physical properties
ABSTRACT
Fatty acids and protein play a crucial role in reducing starch digestion. To investigate the effect of oleic acid (OA)
and whey protein (WP) on the digestion of oxidized and/or hydroxypropyl starches and its mechanism, the
changes on digestion, properties and microstructure of starch before and after complexation with OA and WP
were analyzed using rapid viscosity analyzer (RVA), rheometer, scanning electron microscope (SEM), Fourier
transformation infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and X-ray diffractometer (XRD). Results showed that starches with
OA and WP showed cooling peaks in RVA curve due to starch-OA-WP complexes formation. Additionally, OA and
WP had synergistic effects on the increase of storage modulus (G
′
), the decrease of gel pore size and digestion of
starches. OA and WP had a greater effect on digestion of oxidized hydroxypropyl starch (OHPS) than that of
hydroxypropyl starch (HPS) and oxidized starch (OS). Specically, resistant starch content in HPS, OS and OHPS
was increased by 82.41%, 58.67% and 279.18%, respectively, due to OA and WP incorporation. This was
attributed to the decrease of solubility and increase of order degree of OHPS caused by OA and WP. Therefore,
the appropriate hydrophilic and lipophilic properties of OHPS was helpful to complex with OA and WP.
1. Introduction
With the growing concern of rapid digestion of starch, physical and
chemical means have been reported to reduce starch digestibility (Li Y
et al., 2018), and one of a simple methods is the complexation of starch
and non-starch components. Lipids and proteins are important compo-
nents of starch-based foods, which often interact with starch and affect
the processing properties and quality of food (Zheng M et al., 2018). For
example, starch could interact with lipids/fatty acids to form
starch-lipids/fatty acids complexes with V-type structure (Kang X et al.,
2022), which decreased the solubility, swelling power and the di-
gestibility of starch (Niu et al., 2019; Oyeyinka, Singh, and Venter,
2017). Additionally, proteins and fatty acids could interact with starches
to form starch-fatty acid-protein complexes (Lin et al., 2020), which had
lower digestibility and gel strength (Wang S et al., 2020; Zheng M et al.,
2018) and higher gelatinization viscosity, relative crystallinity than the
homologous starch-fatty acids complexes (Wang S, Zheng M, Yu J, Wang
S&Copeland L, 2017). Because of its role in limiting starch digestion, the
complexation of starch, fatty acids and protein has promising applica-
tions (Raigond and Ezekiel, 2015).
The determinants inuencing the complexation of starch with fatty
acids and proteins were the features of starch, fatty acids and protein
and complexation conditions, among which the characteristics of starch
were one of the key factors (Chao C et al., 2018, Wang S, Wang S, Liu L,
Wang S&Copeland L, 2017). Generally, amylose formed
starch-lipid-protein complexes was more easily than amylopectin
because the extremely branched structure of amylopectin restricted the
formation of the essential mono-helical glucan conformation (Wang
et al., 2016). Wang et al. (2023) found that after complexation with
monoglycerides and β-lactoglobulin, octenyl succinic anhydride
(OSA)-modied starch had greater anti-digestibility than unmodied
starch because it was more conducive to
* Corresponding author. College of Food Science and Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, 430023, China.
** Corresponding author. Key Laboratory for Deep Processing of Major Grain and Oil, Ministry of Education, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, 430023, China.
*** Corresponding author. Key Laboratory for Deep Processing of Major Grain and Oil, Ministry of Education, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, 430023,
China.
E-mail addresses: zhanghailong@whpu.edu.cn (H.-l. Zhang), xuedongwuhan@163.com (X.-d. Wang), dj890520@126.com (J. Du).
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Received 22 December 2023; Received in revised form 25 May 2024; Accepted 30 June 2024