Belal J. Muhialdin, Cecia Flores Sanchez, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Job Ubbink
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Abstract
The impact of molecular interactions on the physical properties of extruded pea protein isolate (PPI) is investigated by adding interaction-modulating compounds to the matrix premix and studying the resulting variations in mechanical and physicochemical properties. Blends of PPI (water content 50% w/w) containing either sodium phosphate, urea, sodium dodecylsulphate and β-mercaptoethanol, as well as with all four compounds and only with deionized water (control) were extruded into thin strands (diameter ∼2.4 mm) using a lab-scale twin-screw extruder. The hardness from texture profile analysis (TPA) was the lowest for matrices extruded with β-mercaptoethanol and with all four chemicals, and highest for the control sample. The water holding capacity (WHC) of the matrices is lowest for the β-mercaptoethanol-containing matrix. These results are corroborated by the absorbance of the supernatant at λ = 280 and 600 nm. Our results confirm the importance of disulfide bonds in texturized PPI and show that hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions play auxiliary roles in modulating the properties of extruded PPI matrices. Our approach opens novel ways to modulate the physical properties of texturized plant protein matrices and thereby control their texture.
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Biophysical studies of foods and agricultural products involve research at the interface of chemistry, biology, and engineering, as well as the new interdisciplinary areas of materials science and nanotechnology. Such studies include but are certainly not limited to research in the following areas: the structure of food molecules, biopolymers, and biomaterials on the molecular, microscopic, and mesoscopic scales; the molecular basis of structure generation and maintenance in specific foods, feeds, food processing operations, and agricultural products; the mechanisms of microbial growth, death and antimicrobial action; structure/function relationships in food and agricultural biopolymers; novel biophysical techniques (spectroscopic, microscopic, thermal, rheological, etc.) for structural and dynamical characterization of food and agricultural materials and products; the properties of amorphous biomaterials and their influence on chemical reaction rate, microbial growth, or sensory properties; and molecular mechanisms of taste and smell.
A hallmark of such research is a dependence on various methods of instrumental analysis that provide information on the molecular level, on various physical and chemical theories used to understand the interrelations among biological molecules, and an attempt to relate macroscopic chemical and physical properties and biological functions to the molecular structure and microscopic organization of the biological material.