Cold plasma technologies: Their effect on starch properties and industrial scale-up for starch modification.
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SUBMITTER: Okyere AY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8866071 | biostudies-literature | 2022
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Cold plasma technologies: Their effect on starch properties and industrial scale-up for starch modification.
Okyere Akua Y AY Rajendran Sasireka S Annor George A GA
Current research in food science 20220218
Native starches have limited applications in the food industry due to their unreactive and insoluble nature. Cold plasma technology, including plasma-activated water (PAW), has been explored to modify starches to enhance their functional, thermal, molecular, morphological, and physicochemical properties. Atmospheric cold plasma and low-pressure plasma systems have been used to alter starches and have proven successful. This review provides an in-depth analysis of the different cold plasma setups ...[more]
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