FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (24): 86-91.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201224018

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Preparation and Properties of Citric Acid-Modified Sweet Potato Starch

WANG Bu-shu,WU Ying-long*   

  1. College of Food Scicnce, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya’an 625014, China
  • Received:2011-09-13 Revised:2012-11-23 Online:2012-12-25 Published:2012-12-12

Abstract:

In this study, sweet potato starch was reacted with citric acid to prepare modified starch with high degree of substitution (DS) by a dry heat method. Reaction conditions were optimized by response surface methodology to obtain maximum DS. The optimum reaction conditions were found to be reaction at 148.21 ℃ and pH 1.5 for 6.45 h with a citric acid-to-starch ratio of 0.59 (m/m), resulting in a DH as high as 0.30. Citric acid-modified sweet potato starch exhibited high resistance to enzymatic hydrolysis. Resistance starch content increased with increasing DS, reaching 92% at a DS of 0.13. The average degree of polymerization decreased and the whiteness initially increased and then decreased compared with the native starch.

Key words: citric acid-modified sweet potato starch, preparation, properties

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