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Relationship of physico-chemical structure of starch and digestibility on the lower gut. - AN0303
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Description
Selected starches (wheat, potato, rice and banana ) will be
characterised chemically and physicochemically and their
digestibility index determined in laboratory animals. These
starches will then be subjected to varying temperature /
hydration regimes which may be expected to induce a range of
changes e.g. structural reorganisation short of
gelatinisation, gelatinisation and subsequently
retrogradation. These changes will be characterised
biochemically and physicochemically and the resultant
materials evaluated in both laboratory animals and human
subjects at the medical school. |
Objective
1. To examine the facility with which different starches
form resistant sarch. 2. To examine the impact of processing
conditions of temperature, hydration and rates of
temperature change on the formation of resistant starch.
3. To examine the physical and chemical nature of the native
starches or partially processed starches and that of the
resistant starch.
4. To study the physiological/medical impact of resistant
starch. |
Time-Scale and Cost
From:
1990
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To:
1994
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Cost: £213,729 |
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Contractor / Funded Organisations
University - Nottingham |
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