Background Frozen dough technology could effectively extend the shelf life of bread to
ensure the freshness, which is widely used and gradually replace the traditional bread …

Starchy food is quiet common in human diet. Starch is often modified to be endowed with
specific functionalities. Making flour by milling is almost inevitable during starch-based food …

Yield, taste quality, and cultivar utilisation improvements are important research topics in
indica rice breeding. Herein, we compared the relative effectiveness and relationship of …

Wheat starch has received much attention as an important source of dietary energy for
humans, an interesting carbohydrate and a polymeric material. The understanding of the …

Highlights•Scientific basis of nanotechnology and some future trends are briefly illustrated.•
Characterization techniques for nanomaterials and food at nanoscale are reviewed.•Open …

A deep understanding of starch granule properties is important for its food and non-food
industrial applications. On the other hand, the advance of optical microscopy has been …

Enzymatic hydrolysis of starch granules forms the fundamental basis of how nature
degrades starch in plant cells, how starch is utilized as an energy resource in foods, and …

Starch is a major part of the human diet and an important material for industrial utilization.
The structure of starch granules is the subject of intensive research because it determines …

For complex carbohydrates, such as glycogen and starch, various analytical methods and
techniques exist allowing the detailed characterization of these storage carbohydrates. In …

Potato starch (PS) granules were separated into four fractions based on their volume-
weighted mean diameters: very small (VS), small (S), medium (M) and large (L) granules …