Characterization of Potato Starch and Its Monoglyceride Complexes

Abstract

Abstract Native potato starch granules and those complexed below the gelatinization temperature with 1‐(C 8 to C 18 )‐monoglycerides were compared for solubility, swelling power (SP), viscosity, heat stability and water binding capacity (WBC). X‐ray diffraction analysis proved that complexes were true clathrates (inclusion) compounds. Clathrate stability was a function of monoglyceride chain length. The presence of clathrates in granules decreased solubility by up to 90% and SP up to 10‐times, while WBC dropped from 0.39 to as low as 0.25 g water/g starch. Endotherm characteristics were given for gelatinization, most perfect crystallite, and clathrate fusions. Enthalpies per mole glucose units of 15.4 kcal/mole for native starch and 27.5 for clathrate were obtained irrespective of monoglyceride chain length.