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Background: Starches and proteins are two major types of biopolymer components, especially in many flour (starch)-based foods consumed worldwide, which provide energy and nutrition needed by the human body. In many such starch-based matrices (the main structural component of such foods), proteins and their interactions with starches greatly influence the matrix structure and properties. Studying the different roles played by proteins (endogenous and exogenous) in various starch-based food systems can provide a frame of reference for the design and production of improved starch-based food products with tailored properties and desirable nutritional functions. Scope and approach: Significant efforts have recently been made to tailor the morphology, structure, and properties of many starch-based food systems, and thus to design various starch-based food products with satisfactory attributes. This review surveys the latest literature on starch-based matrices containing proteins. Discussed are the influences of proteins and their interactions with starches on the morphologies and structures (e.g. short- and long-range orders) of starch-based matrices, as well as on their pasting, thermal, rheological, textural, sensory, and digestive properties. Also, current understandings of structure–property links are presented, along with their implications on the production of various starchy foods (e.g. pastas, breads, cakes, and biscuits), including gluten-free versions. Key findings and conclusions: Proteins in many starchy food matrices can encapsulate the starch phase (or be adsorbed on its surfaces) on a micron scale, and thereby interact with starch chains via both non-covalent (e.g. hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic, and electrostatic) and covalent bonds (e.g. via Maillard reactions). These facts and protein features (e.g. hydration and gelation abilities) can play major roles in inhibiting starch retrogradation (the reassembly of cooked starch chains into ordered structures) and in regulating various other properties of such starch-based matrices, including viscosity, transition temperatures, moduli, hardness, sensory, digestibility, and shelf-life. Despite the fact that the current literature presents considerable information on the structure–property relationships of many different starch-based matrices and their applications in the processing of various starchy foods (e.g. pastas, noodles, and biscuits), it is still highly necessary to define more comprehensive correlations among starch–protein interactions, starch–protein matrix structures, and the resulting properties of such food products.
Author(s): Zhang B, Qiao D, Zhao S, Lin Q, Wang J, Xie F
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Trends in Food Science & Technology
Year: 2021
Volume: 114
Pages: 212-231
Print publication date: 01/08/2021
Online publication date: 05/06/2021
Acceptance date: 26/05/2021
Date deposited: 23/05/2023
ISSN (print): 0924-2244
ISSN (electronic): 1879-3053
Publisher: Elsevier
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2021.05.033
DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2021.05.033
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