Wheat starch paste texture

Wheat starch possesses a unique combination of properties that is important to its utilization in various food and industrial products. Those properties are related to its color, purity, flavor, paste viscosity, paste clarity, paste texture and gel strength.27 28,311-315... 

Acetylated wheat distarch phosphate pastes had improved clarity and better storage stability than the pastes of unmodified and crosslinked alone starches when 1% aqueous dispersions were heated in a boiling water bath for 30 minutes and stored at two different temperatures (4°C and 25°C) for 9 days.27 Storage at 4°C of 5% pastes of native and crosslinked wheat starch revealed that both were unstable after one day, the soft texture of the initial pastes being transformed into an opaque and rigid gel that exhibited syneresis. In contrast, the acetylated distarch phosphate was stable for at least... 

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