Effect of acid hydrolysis combined with heat moisture treatment on structure and physicochemical properties of corn starch.

Modification of starch led to new products with new desirable properties. Corn starch samples modified by acid hydrolysis combined with heat moisture treatment (AH-HMT) were made by changing pH, moisture content and treated temperature. After modification, swelling power at temperature higher than 75 °C of corn starches decreased while solubility of the starches increased. After AH-HMT, pasting temperature (PT) of all treated starch samples increased. But lower peak viscosity (PKV), trough viscosity (TV) and break down (BD) of most treated starch samples were observed. AH-HMT increased the gel hardness of all treated starches. And the biggest hardness of modified starch gel was 148.419 g, improving 93.471 g compared with native starch gel. The melting temperatures (To, Tp, Tc) of modified starch increased, but the melting range and △H decreased. The X-ray pattern remained practically unchanged with or without AH-HMT. Acid hydrolysis combined with heat moisture treatment (AH-HMT) improved the functional properties of corn starch.