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LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 180-184Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2007.01.012
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polysaccharides; beta-glucan; viscoelastic properties; structure
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The solution properties of beta-glucan isolated from whole grains of oats and barley were studied by viscosity and oscillatory measurements both in water and in aqueous cuoxam, an ammoniacal Cu(OH)(2)/CUCl-solution. The viscosity measurements of water solutions show stronger shear thinning for oat than for barley beta-glucans. The crossover points of the moduli G' and G '' in cuoxam solutions were different for the two beta-glucans, i.e. 10 Hz for oat beta-glucan and 1.5 Hz for barley beta-glucan. The molecular weights of the beta-glucans were similar. Therefore, the difference in solution properties seems to be related to the difference in structure. This difference is revealed by the ratio DP3:DP4 of the main building blocks of beta-glucans, which was higher for barley than for oat beta-glucan. (c) 2007 Swiss Society of Food Science and Technology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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