Journal
JOURNAL OF TEXTURE STUDIES
Volume 53, Issue 4, Pages 465-477Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jtxs.12667
Keywords
cooked rice; digestive fluids; elastic modulus; food texture; micro texture analyzer; surface mechanics
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [22078212]
- Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China [19KJD550001]
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In this study, the texture characteristics of cooked rice and fried rice in simulated digestion environments were explored using a micro texture analyzer (MTA). The results showed that the hardness of cooked rice decreased significantly during digestion, while the hardness of fried rice decreased less. The study also found a weak negative correlation between the elastic modulus and the moisture content of cooked rice. These findings are practically meaningful for understanding the influence of textural modifications on digestion and the release of nutrients.
In this study, a micro texture analyzer (MTA) was employed to explore the texture characteristics of the surface of an individual steamed rice (SR) and fried rice (FR) grain exhibited in four simulated digestion environments in vitro. The elastic modulus, hardness and elastic index of the single cooked rice particle were measured using the MTA. The hardness of SR particles decreased by 66, 81, 89.1, and 95% after simulated digestion in distilled water, HCl, simulated gastric fluid (SGF), and simulated salivary and gastric fluid (SSF + SGF), respectively. This is in line with the most significant volume expansion and structure ruptures when digested in SSF + SGF. Similar mechanical and structural behaviors were shown for FR, but the hardness and elastic modulus decreased less than those of SR under the same digestion conditions. The different surface mechanics are consistent with the reduced expansion and more compact structure with smaller voids in FR during in vitro digestion. This could be attributed to the encapsulation by frying oil on the surface that would retard the diffusion of digestive fluids into the rice kernels. A weak negative correlation was found between the elastic modulus and the moisture content of the cooked rice. The present study has quantitatively assessed the surface mechanics of cooked rice as influenced by gastric fluids using the MTA. This is practically meaningful for gaining an in-depth understanding of the influence of textural modifications on disintegration of solid foods and release of nutrients during digestion.
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