Starch octenylsuccinate, oxidation

Starch octenylsuccinates offer excellent emulsifying properties, flavor oil retention and good oxidation resistance versus gum arabic. They can be made on a variety of starch bases, dextrins or fluidities which provide versatility and improved spray-drying costs. Starch octenylsuccinate are low in cost, domestically produced and are not subject to the market fluctuations that gum arabic encounters. 

Improved stability towards oxidation of spray dried flavor oils was achieved by using a combination of a high-maltose syrup, maltodextrin and a high molecular weight, film-forming polysaccharide, such as starch octenylsuccinate or gum ara-bic.200 201 Emulsification performance of maltodextrins is improved by treatment with octenylsuccinic anhydride and aluminum sulfate. 

Serfert, Y., Drusch, S., Schmidt-Hansberg, B., Kind, M., Schwarz, K. (2009). Process engineering parameters and type of n-octenylsuccinate-derivatised starch affect oxidative stability of microencapsulated long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Journal of Food Engineering, 95, 386-392. 

Starches have been chemically modified to improve their solution and gelling characteristics for food applications. Common modifications involve the cross linking of the starch chains, formation of esters and ethers, and partial depolymerization. Chemical modifications that have been approved in the United States for food use, involve esterification with acetic anhydride, succinic anhydride, mixed acid anhydrides of acetic and adipic acids, and 1-octenylsuccinic anhydride to give low degrees of substitution (d.s.), such as 0.09 [31]. Phosphate starch esters have been prepared by reaction with phosphorus oxychloride, sodium trimetaphosphate, and sodium tripolyphosphate the maximum phosphate d.s. permitted in the US is 0.002. Starch ethers, approved for food use, have been prepared by reaction with propylene oxide to give hydroxypropyl derivatives [31]. 

In the following years, nanostructural differences in the particle morphology and thus differing gas diffusivity was identified as the cause of a different oxidative stability of microencapsulated nutritional oils. When using a octenylsuccinate-derivatized starch with a high proportion of low molecular weight disaccharides, a significant inhibition of autoxidation compared to a carrier... 

Drusch S, Serfert Y, Schwarz K (2006) Microencapsulation of fish oil with n-octenylsuccinate-deriva-tised starch Flow properties and oxidative stability. European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology 108 501-512. 

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