Characterization of tropical starches modified with potassium permanganate and lactic acid

FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Characterization of tropical starches modified with potassium permanganate and lactic acid

Fabiano Franco Takizawa; Graziela de Oliveira da Silva; Francisco Eneias Konkel; Ivo Mottin Demiate^*

Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa; Departamento de Engenharia de Alimentos; Av. General Carlos Cavalcanti, 4748; Campus de Uvaranas; 84030-900; [e-mail]; Ponta Grossa - PR - Brazil

ABSTRACT

In the present work some tropical starches were modified by an oxidative chemical treatment with potassium permanganate and lactic acid. The native and modified samples were evaluated by mid-infrared spectroscopy, differential dyeing, pH, expansion power, solubility and swelling power, clarity of the pastes, susceptibility to syneresis, carboxyl content and reducing power. All modified samples presented dark blue color, higher expansion power (except corn starch), carboxyl content and reducing power. The solubility of the modified starch granules was very high at 90ºC. At this temperature, it was not possible to measure their swelling power. The viscographic analysis showed decrease in peak viscosity and higher degree of cooking instability. The principal component analysis of the mid-infrared spectra allowed separation between native and modified samples due to the presence of carboxyl groups. The expansion was inversely related with amylose content of the starches.

Key words: Tropical starches; oxidized starches; FTIR

RESUMO

No presente trabalho alguns amidos tropicais foram modificados por tratamento oxidativo com permanganato de potássio e ácido lático. Amidos nativos e modificados foram avaliadas por espectroscopia na região do infravermelho médio, coloração diferencial, pH, propriedade de expansão, poder de inchamento e solubilidade, claridade das pastas, susceptibilidade a sinérese, teor carboxilas e poder redutor. Todas as amostras modificadas adquiriram intensa coloração azul quando suspensas em azul de metileno, maiores valores de expansão (exceto o amido de milho), teor de carboxilas e poder redutor. A solubilidade dos grânulos dos amidos modificados foi muito alta a temperatura de 90°C, não tendo sido possível medir o poder de inchamento. A análise viscográfica mostrou um decréscimo no pico de viscosidade e alta instabilidade ao cozimento. A análise dos componentes principais dos espectros de infravermelho médio permitiu a separação entre as amostras nativas e modificadas devido a presença de carboxilas. A expansão das amostras foi inversamente relacionada com os teores de amilose.

INTRODUCTION

Starch, the main reserve carbohydrate of several crops, is highly abundant in nature and can be easily extracted with high purity and low cost (Cereda et al., 2001). Industry is using starch for a long time as an ingredient in foods, especially for its functional properties. Depending on the source, the starches have different applications, improving consistency, stability, and other properties (Smith, 1982). The most common plant sources for food starches used all over the world are corn, wheat, potato and cassava. However, there is a constant search for new starches presenting different properties due to the continuous need of improving quality of products and processes as well as development of new products. Chemical modifications of native starches which gives distinct functional properties have been developed due to the desire of the industries in bringing new products to the market and improving others. All starches, native and modified, have structural differences and a great number of studies are being done to show each particularity. The technological development and the evolution on food industry process show up high tendency for modifications that preserve desirable natural characteristics. The degree of modification of starches produced under controlled temperature and pH affects directly their price and applications. However, it is necessary to understand how different starches answer to these modifications for an industrial classification and control (Dolmatova et al., 1998).

Hoover (2001), in a review about tropical starches, discussing the granule morphology, chemical composition and proximate analysis, cristalinity, structure of amylose and amylopectin, swelling power and solubility, gelatinization, rheology, retrogradation and digestibility concluded that there was a lack of information on the surface properties, granule cristalinity, double helical content, amylose chain length, chain length distribution of amylopectin, and physical properties (digestibility, retrogradation and rheology) of tuber and root starches. He reported that except for few crops such as potato, the available data refer to few cultivars and were obtained by different methods, not allowing comparisons. Moorthy (1994) found that the examination of the properties of the different tuber starches revealed a wide variability in their properties, which was not found in cereal starches.

Oxidized starches are widely used in paper, textile and food industries. In food applications, the preparations of oxidized starches are obtained as thickeners and subsidiary gelatin agents, in sauces, jellies, puddings and ice creams (Boruch, 1985). Although these starches are being used since many decades, their structural changes and the mechanisms of reaction are still not well understood, mainly when considering low levels of oxidants (Wang and Wang, 2003). The oxidative treatment affects the starch viscosity and the paste stability (Forssell et al., 1995). It is well known that there is a decrease in the starch molecular weight that allows its addition in high quantities without raising excessively the paste or gel viscosity (Autio et al., 1996).

Demiate and Cereda (2000) studied some physico-chemical characteristics of cassava starches modified by a chemical treatment with potassium permanganate and lactic acid. The chemical treatment was made in order to produce starch with baking property (Demiate et al., 2000) or expansion power. The authors succeeded in producing chemically modified samples presenting the expansion power, what was known only for cassava sour starch. This was the first time that a chemically modified starch was evaluated for such a property and the aim of the research was to develop a new product for food use. Considering that the reagents employed are not the same described for conventional modifications, it will be necessary to investigate alternative chemicals for producing food grade modified starches.

The objective of this paper was to produce modified starches from selected tropical sources by the same treatment described above and to evaluate their properties.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Materials

Cassava (Manihot esculenta), corn (Zea mays), waxy corn (Zea mays) and potato (Solanum tuberosum) starches were obtained from Brazilian producers. Starches not available on market were extracted in the laboratory. Peruvian carrot (Arracacia xanthorrhiza) and sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) roots were washed, peeled, crushed and the starch extracted by washing and sieving. In the first washing of the crushed roots, a 200ppm metabisulfite solution was used to control enzymatic browning. The starches were dried in an air oven at 45ºC for 24 hours. The tuberous starches were selected due to their technological importance (potato and cassava) or potential (Peruvian carrot and sweet potato). Corn and waxy corn were included for comparison considering their commercial importance.

Modification by Oxidative Treatment

The samples were submitted to an oxidative treatment as described by Demiate (1999). The starches (20% w/w) were first treated with potassium permanganate 0.1N for 30 minutes under agitation at room temperature (ca. 20ºC). The oxidized samples were filtered (Whatman n° 2) and then washed with deionized water to remove the excess of reagent. The washed starch was treated with a 1% w/w lactic acid solution (20% w/w of starch and final mass of 1kg) for one hour at room temperature and then recovered by the same procedure. The samples were washed with deionized water to eliminate all the soluble components, dried in air oven at 50°C for 24 hours and then stored in hermetic flasks.

pH determination

The pH was analyzed in a suspension of starch (20g) in deionized water (100mL) after agitation for 30 minutes, employing a digital pH potentiometer (Hanna Instruments, mod. HI 8424, Woonsocket RI, USA) with a DME - CV1 combined electrode (Digimed, São Paulo, Brasil).

Reducing power

The reducing power was measured as the reduction of ferric to ferrous cyanide by the starch, with generation of a precipitate. The ferric ions in excess reduce iodine which was titrated with thiosulphate (International Starch Institute, 2001).

Carboxyl content

The content of carboxyl was determined by suspension of 500 mg of starch in 30 mL 0.1N HCl; after 30 minutes these samples were washed with de-ionized water, and then suspended in 300 mL de-ionized water and heated at boiling temperature under agitation for 10 minutes. Hot solution was titrated with 0.002N NaOH, using phenolphthalein as indicator. Carboxyl content was expressed as % COOH (w/w).

Differential dyeing

The samples (1g) were suspended in 25mL of 0.1% methylene blue under agitation for 30 minutes, washed with deionized water and filtered. The samples were dried in air oven at 50ºC.

Solubility and swelling power

These properties were evaluated at different temperatures (50, 60, 80 and 90ºC), as described by Leach et al. (1959). The analysis was carried out in 50 mL leak proof centrifuge tubes, by taking a suspension of starch in deionized water in water bath under agitation at the selected temperatures. After 30 minutes, the samples were centrifuged (3,400rpm/15minutes), separating the supernatant, which was collected and dried for soluble fraction quantification. The pellets, containing the swollen starch granules, were weighed. The ratio between the final mass and the initial dry matter was considered the swelling power. The solubility was expressed in weight percentage and the swelling power in weight increase.

Viscographic analysis

Hot paste behavior was analyzed with a Rapid Visco Analyser (Newport Scientific, Narabeen, Australia) (Garcia, 1996). Samples (2 g d.m.) were suspended in 28 g of solvent by utilizing an Ultraturrax T25 (Ika, Staufen, Germany), as described by Mestres and Rouau (1997). De-ionized water was employed as solvent. The RVA temperature program was as follows: maintaining at 35°C for two minutes, heating to 95°C for five minutes and cooling until 50°C at 6°C/ minute rate. Cooking profile of the samples was evaluated by considering the viscosity peaks, pasting temperature and final viscosity at 50°C.

Clarity of the starch paste

The samples were suspended in deionized water and gelatinized. The paste clarity was observed immediately after cooking (hot condition) and after cooling at room temperature (cold condition). Petry dishes containing starch paste were photographed against a black and white background to help visual observation of the paste transparence or opacity (Cereda and Wosiacki, 1985).

Mid-infrared spectroscopy

The samples were analyzed using a Nicolet Avatar 360 spectrophotometer (Thermo Nicolet, Madison WI, USA) with deuterated triglycine sulfate (DTGS) detector. The spectral range considered was 4000 to 700 cm^-1, which allowed a complete investigation of the molecular structure (Dupuy et al., 1997; Dupuy, 1993). KBr (150 mg) and sample (2 mg in dry base) pellets were obtained in hydraulic press (10 ton). The average spectra were explored by multivariate analysis. The number of scannings was 100 and the triangular apodization function of the standard Nicolet software used for the collection of the spectra (Dupuy et al., 1997; Dupuy, 1993).

The average spectra were converted to numeric files and then explored by principal component analysis (PCA), considering the spectral range from 1589 – 1620 and 1714 – 1778 cm^-1 to verify the influence of the modification. The software "The Unscrambler" (The Unscrambler, 1997) was employed for studying the spectral information.

Expansion power

This property was evaluated by partial gelatinization of 12g of starch with 10 mL boiling water with production of a dough. Dough was divided in three balls of approximately same size. These balls were baked at 200°C for 20 minutes, and after cooling at room temperature, weighed. Their volumes, after covering with a paraffin layer, were measured by total submersion in water, in a graduated cylinder. Expansion was registered as specific volume, in mL.g^-1 (Demiate et al., 2000).

Syneresis

Starch suspension at 8% (w/w) in deionized water was gelatinized and kept at boiling temperature and agitation for 10 minutes. The gel was poured on a standardized plastic cup and stored in freezer (-18ºC for 24 h). When the gel was cold after thawing (2h at 40ºC), it was detached from the cup and the weight of water loss measured. The amount of free water was expressed as percentage of weight loss and two cycles of freeze-thawing were considered. All the samples, from the first and second cycles, were frozen (-18ºC for 24h) and thawed (40ºC for 2h) together at the same conditions. For the second cycle, the cups containing the starch pastes were only thawed but the paste was kept inside the cup. After complete thawing, the cups were taken back to the freezer for more 24h and then thawed again at 40ºC for 2h and the freed water weighed.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The selected tropical starches present different physico-chemical characteristics, what can be exemplified by their amylose contents, shown in Table 1.

The amylose content certainly has great interference on the results. The waxy corn showed a very low level and was studied in order to verify this kind of interference. In case of sweet potato, the yield of starch extraction was of 21.5% (wet basis) and starch purity was 99.4% (dry basis) (Silva et al., 2002).

pH determination

The lowest values for native samples were detected for corn and waxy corn (4.9 and 5.0 respectively) that were commercial starches extracted in a different manner from the other starches. These cereal starches, after modification, presented the highest pH values (5.7 and 6.2 respectively). There was an indication of different behavior between the cereal and tuberous starches studied. Results of pH are shown in Table 2.

Reducing power

As shown in Table 2, the modified samples had higher reducing power than the native samples. Glucose polymers were fragmented by the oxidative treatment, decreasing the molecular weight and exposing a higher number of reducing endings that were easily oxidized to carboxylic acids. The depolymerization was confirmed by Demiate and Cereda (2000) who detected decrease of intrinsic viscosity for cassava starch modified by the chemical treatment with potassium permanganate and lactic acid.

Carboxyl content

The results obtained by carboxyl quantification showed that the modified samples had higher content than native samples (Table 2). The increasing of the carboxyl content after the oxidative treatment has been discussed by different researchers (Ali and Kempf, 1986; Wang and Wang, 2003; Zhu et al., 1998). The carboxyl content of different starches varied also as found in the literature (Kuakpetoon and Wang, 2001). The high carboxyl content of the modified starches could be directly related with the molecular fragmentation due to the oxidative treatment.

Native potato starch showed the higher carboxyl content when compared to the other samples.

Kuakpetoon and Wang, 2001 also found that potato starch had higher carboxyl content when compared to corn and rice starches but using sodium hypochlorite for the oxidative treatment.

Solubility and swelling power

The swelling power and solubility of starch granules showed a great evidence of interaction on the starch chains between the amorphous and crystalline regions. When starch is submitted to heating in excess of water, there is a relaxation of the crystalline structure and the groups of amylose and amylopectin associate with water molecules through hydrogen bondings. This causes an increase in the swelling power and in the solubility of the granules (Hoover, 2001).The swelling power increased with the increase of temperature. According to Hashim et al, 1992, during the gelatinization temperature the starch granule has a limited swelling in which only a small amount of carbohydrate is solubilized but at 90°C there is an increase in the swelling power and a large amount of carbohydrate leaks from the granular structure. The results of swelling power for modified samples were lower than for native ones; probably this fact was due to the oxidative treatment, which turned the granules weaker and easier to be disrupted. That could be easily exemplified by the swelling of the native and modified potato starch. The native potato starch showed higher swelling power when compared with the other samples, despite the fact that the value (100 times at 90°C) was much lower than that found in the literature (1159 times at 90°C) (Leach, 1959) and it is probably due to the presence of phosphate groups (Galliard and Bowler, 1987).

The solubility increased with the increasing of the temperature as mentioned by Paterson et al., 1994. Due to the fact that the oxidized starch pastes presented high transparency, there was an additional difficulty in identifying the separation of the two phases after centrifugation and as a consequence some of the results were lost .

Differential dyeing

The samples submitted to the methylene blue differential dyeing showed the expected results. The native starches presented a lighter blue color when compared to the modified starches, except the native potato starch that showed a dark blue color; this fact should be associated to the presence of phosphate groups. This different adsorption of methylene blue is due to the presence of carboxyl groups in modified starches. The anionic carboxyl, which is present in modified starches, has a higher affinity to methylene blue that is cationic.

Viscographic analysis

Generally the pasting temperatures of the modified starches were lower than that of the native. The starches from Peruvian carrot, potato and cassava presented pasting temperatures (ca. 70ºC) lower than that of regular corn starch (ca. 80°C); the literature indicates that starches from tuberous roots have lower pasting temperatures than cereal starches (Thomas and Atwell, 1999). The modified starches presented lower peak viscosity and higher cooking instability (Figure 1). The peak viscosity represented the highest level of completely swollen granules (Thomas and Atwell, 1999). There are some evidences that the granule swelling is limited by amylose; though, waxy starches have the highest swelling power while amylose rich starches present limited swelling (Lii et al, 1995; Tester and Morrison, 1990).

The oxidative chemical modification resulted in pastes with low viscosities what can be explained by the lower molecular weight of starch macromolecules (Chung et al., 1999; Hebeish et al., 1989; Kuakpetoon and Wang, 2001; Morton and Solarek, 1984; Potze and Hiemstra, 1963).

The lower molecular weight of the macromolecules of cassava starch modified by the same chemical treatment using permanganate/lactic acid was showed by Demiate and Cereda (2000) who had analyzed the intrinsic viscosity. Although all modified samples presented lower viscosities, with high cooking instability, in the case of Peruvian carrot, it was possible to observe a relatively high viscosity peak, which suggested a different behavior of the tuberous starch when submitted to the considered chemical treatment.

Paste clarity

The results showed that the clarity of the paste was related with the solubility of starch granules, because as more soluble was the sample, more transparent the paste. All modified starches produced translucent or transparent pastes, as shown in Table 3.

Mid-infrared spectroscopy

Analyzing the spectra obtained by mid-infrared spectroscopy, it was not possible to visualize any difference in the molecular starch structure. Although the samples were oven-dried before the infrared spectroscopic analyses, there were problems with moisture that interfered in the results. Using the principal component analysis (PCA), it was possible to classify the samples considering the spectral range from 1589 – 1620 and 1714 – 1778 cm-1. The scores and loadings of the three first principal components (explained variance of 99%) are shown in Fig. 2, considering native and modified corn (corn/mcorn) and cassava (cass/mcass) starches.

The results showed a good separation from modified and native starches that could be associated with the presence of carboxyl groups in modified starches. Demiate et al. (2000) detected high carboxyl content in modified cassava starch samples after the same oxidative modification The spectral bands 1600 and 1730 cm^-1 were characteristic of anionic and acid carboxyl, respectively.

Expansion property

The results obtained showed that the native starches had low expansion values (1.2 to 3.1 mL.g^-1), except the waxy corn starch (8.5 mL.g^-1). After the oxidative treatment the expansion values increased, especially for waxy corn starch (19.4 mL.g^-1), but not for regular corn starch (1.2 mL.g^-1). Waxy corn and cassava had higher expansion values when compared to other samples, and for this characteristic they are important in snacks production (HUANG, 2000).

Syneresis

Susceptibility to syneresis is an important property of starches, characterized by water leaking from pastes during cooling. In the first freeze-thaw cycle, it was observed that more water was freed from the modified samples, varying from 23 to 75% in relation to the initial weight; for the native samples, water liberation ranged from 0 to 60%. Native waxy corn and cassava starches showed low susceptibility to syneresis when considering the two cycles. In the second cycle, the results indicated that almost all the samples lost more water.

The fragmentation of starch chains during the chemical treatment could be associated with the higher water liberation due to intensive molecular re-association. Considering average values of the first and second freeze-thaw cycles, in case of native samples, the susceptibility to syneresis was: corn > potato = sweet potato > Peruvian carrot > waxy corn > cassava. For the modified starches, the susceptibility changed as follows: corn > sweet potato > cassava > potato > waxy corn > Peruvian carrot.

Amylose content was related with the behavior of the native starch samples, what could be observed by comparing their order of susceptibility to syneresis with the data from Table 1. For the modified samples, there was influence of the amylose content but it seemed that there were other factors that interfered. This was especially clear for Peruvian carrot starch that was different from the others in the syneresis susceptibility as well as in the viscographic analysis.

CONCLUSIONS

The modified starches studied in this work presented different properties from the respective native, evidenced by higher susceptibility to syneresis, carboxyl content, reducing power and paste clarity, different solubility and swelling power behavior and RVA cooking pattern showing lower peak viscosity and higher cooking instability. All modified starches, except corn, presented higher expansion when baked, which was possibly associated with their amylopectin fraction. The expansion was inversely related with the amylose content of the starches. These modified properties were influenced by the presence of carboxyl groups as well as molecular weight changes. In the case of Peruvian carrot starch, there was some different behavior on RVA cooking pattern as well as on the susceptibility to syneresis. The pH of modified tuberous starches was always lower than that of the respective native starches, but in the case of the studied cereal starches (corn and waxy corn), the opposite situation occurred.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors are grateful to the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for financial support (Proc. 473799/01-4), the Centro de Raízes e Amidos Tropicais (CERAT/UNESP – Botucatu SP- FAPESP n° 98/01649-9) for the infrared analyses and to ESALQ/USP (Piracicaba SP) for the RVA analyses and also to Corn Products Brasil for providing the waxy corn starch sample.

Received: December 09, 2002;

Revised: September 11, 2003;

Accepted: May 10, 2004.

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Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  04 Feb 2005
• Date of issue
  Nov 2004

History

• Accepted
  10 May 2004
• Reviewed
  11 Sept 2003
• Received
  09 Dec 2002