High-amylose maize refers to a special type of maize cultivar with a 50%–90% amylose
content of the total starch. High-amylose maize starch (HAMS) is of interest because it …

Background Butyrate, propionate and acetate are short chain fatty acids (SCFA), important
for maintaining a healthy colon and are considered as protective in colorectal …

Starch retrogradation is a process in which disaggregated amylose and amylopectin chains
in a gelatinized starch paste reassociate to form more ordered structures. Starch …

Polysaccharides derived from plant foods are major components of the human diet, with
limited contributions of related components from fungal and algal sources. In particular …

Recent studies of the mechanisms determining the rate and extent of starch digestion by α-
amylase are reviewed in the light of current widely-used classifications for (a) the …

Starch is, after cellulose, the most abundant organic compound in nature. Modification of
starch is carried out to enhance the positive attributes and to eliminate the shortcomings of …

Resistant starch (RS) is defined as the fraction of starch that escapes digestion in the small
intestine due to either difficult enzyme/starch contact or to the strength of the crystalline …

QUOKKA is a 40 m pinhole small-angle neutron scattering instrument in routine user
operation at the OPAL research reactor at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology …

We give an overview of the kinetics of starch digestion, emphasizing in vitro studies and the
various mathematical models used to analyse the data. The emphasis in this review is on …

Maize and potato starch granules were separated by a sedimentation method into a range of
fractions based on their size. The surface weighted mean diameter [D (3, 2)] of separated …