Cold-chain cooked rice with different water contents: Retarded starch digestion by refrigeration.

Cold-chain cooked rice is a widely-consumed instant food. While the quality of cooked rice as affected by processing has been widely studied, it remains largely unexplored how concurrent cold-chain conditions (e.g., refrigeration time with specific water contents) tailor the structure and starch digestibility of cooked rice. Here, as shown by combined techniques (e.g., scanning electron microscopy and small angle X-ray scattering), the cold storage (1 to 3 days) of cooked rice at 1.1:1 w/w water-to-rice ratio increased the uniformity of the rice matrix, strengthened the nonperiodic structure, and allowed more B-type starch crystallites and short-range orders. This induced an increase in the slowly digestible starch (SDS) content (from ca. 33.7% to 38.5%) as the refrigeration time rose. In contrast, for cooked rice with 1.5:1 w/w water-to-rice ratio, the cold storage (mainly 1 day) strengthened the matrix uniformity and the nonperiodic structure, and eventually increased the resistant starch (RS) content from ca. 10.3% to 17.7%. The present data could facilitate the design of cold-chain cooked rice with tailored starch digestibility. Copyright © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Dingbang Li, Zhuoting Wu, Siming Zhao, Lili Wang, Dongling Qiao, Liang Zhang, Binjia Zhang. Cold-chain cooked rice with different water contents: Retarded starch digestion by refrigeration. International journal of biological macromolecules. 2022 Feb 28;199:10-16

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