title: The importance of amylose and amylopectin fine structures for starch digestibility in cooked rice grains.
abstract: Statistically and causally meaningful relationships are established between starch molecular structures (obtained by size-exclusion chromatography, proton NMR and multiple-angle laser light scattering) and digestibility of cooked rice grains (measured by in vitro digestion). Significant correlations are observed between starch digestion rate and molecular structural characteristics, including fine structures of the distributions of branch (chain) lengths in both amylose and amylopectin. The in vitro digestion rate tends to increase with longer amylose branches and smaller ratios of long amylopectin and long amylose branches to short amylopectin branches, although the statistical analyses show that further data are needed to establish this unambiguously. These new relationships between fine starch structural features and digestibility of cooked rice grains are mechanistically reasonable, but suggestive rather than statistically definitive.
authors.affiliation: University of Queensland, Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
authors.forename: Z A
authors.initials: ZA
authors.lastname: Syahariza
authors.forename: Seila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sar
authors.forename: Jovin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hasjim
authors.forename: Morgan J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Tizzotti
authors.forename: Robert G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Gilbert
mesh_terms: D000687:Amylopectin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D000688:Amylose / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D003296:Cooking; D004063:Digestion; D006801:Humans; D015394:Molecular Structure; D012275:Oryza / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D013213:Starch / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D013213:Starch; D000688:Amylose; D000687:Amylopectin