Phase equilibria and gelation in gelatin/maltodextrin systems — Part III: phase separation in mixed gels |
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Authors: | Stefan Kasapis Edwin R Morris Ian T Norton CRupert T Brown |
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Institution: | Department of Food Research and Technology, Cranfield Institute of Technology, Silsoe College, Silsoe, Bedford MK45 4DT, UK Unilever Research, Colworth Laboratory, Sharnbrook, Bedford MK44 1LQ, UK |
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Abstract: | Co-gels of potato maltodextrin Paselli SA-6 with gelatin were prepared by rapid quenching of mixed solutions from 90°C. At fixed setting temperature and fixed concentration of gelatin, the time required to form a self-supporting network showed an initial steady decrease with increasing concentration of SA-6 (as expected from polymer exclusion), but then increased dramatically before again decreasing. The interpretation of this behaviour as phase inversion from a gelatin-continuous network with SA-6 inclusions to a (more slowly-forming) SA-6 network with gelatin inclusions was confirmed by differential scanning calorimetry (showing both components melting separately, with no evidence of specific interaction), mechanical spectroscopy (showing that the mixed gel network was destroyed completely by melting of the gelatin component at low concentrations of SA-6, but only weakened at SA-6 concentrations above the inversion point) and by light microscopy (showing the expected changes in distribution of the two polymers). In similar studies using the faster-gelling potato maltodextrin Paselli SA-2, microscopy and gel-melting profiles again showed phase-inversion from a gelatin-continuous network at low concentrations of SA-2 to a maltodextrin-continuous network at higher concentrations. Inversion, however, occurred at a lower concentration of maltodextrin than in the gelatin/SA-6 systems, and the accompanying change in gelation rate was confined to a sharp decrease in the dependence of gel-time on SA-2 concentration. |
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