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Changes in physicochemical properties related to the texture of lotus rhizomes subjected to heat blanching and calcium immersion
- Source :
- Food Chemistry. 211:409-414
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Pretreatments such as low temperature blanching and/or calcium soaking affect the cooked texture of vegetal food. In the work, lotus rhizomes (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) were pretreated using the following 4 treatments, blanching at 40°C, blanching at 90°C, soaking in 0.5% CaCl2, and blanching at 40°C followed by immersion in 0.5% CaCl2. Subsequently, the cell wall material of pretreated samples was isolated and fractioned to identify changes in the degree of esterification (DE) and monosaccharide content of each section, and the texture of the lotus rhizomes in different pre-treatments was determined after thermal processing with different time. The results showed that the greatest hardness was obtained after blanching at 40°C in CaCl2, possibly attributing to the formation of a pectate calcium network, which maintains the integrity of cell walls. Furthermore, the content of galactose, rhamnose and arabinose decreased due to the breakage of sugar backbones and subsequent damage to cell walls. Our results may provide a reference for lotus rhizome processing.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Arabinose
Hot Temperature
Chemical Phenomena
Rhamnose
Blanching
Lotus
chemistry.chemical_element
Nelumbo
Calcium
01 natural sciences
Antioxidants
Analytical Chemistry
chemistry.chemical_compound
0404 agricultural biotechnology
Botany
Monosaccharide
Food science
Sugar
chemistry.chemical_classification
biology
Plant Extracts
food and beverages
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
General Medicine
biology.organism_classification
040401 food science
Rhizome
body regions
chemistry
010606 plant biology & botany
Food Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 03088146
- Volume :
- 211
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Food Chemistry
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....579bc9fce30dd50610e6d2a8969391e5