a Division of Food Sciences, Sutton Bonington Campus, University of Nottingham, Loughborough LE12 5RD, UK
b Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Agriculture, Sultan Qaboos University, P.O. Box 34, Al-Khod 123, Oman
Abstract:
Small-deformation dynamic oscillation and differential scanning calorimetry were used to ascertain the role of water molecules in high sugar/polysaccharide glasses. Increasing replacement of water with sugar affects adversely tahe degree of order in the polysaccharide network to such an extent that at level of solids >90% structure formation is no longer possible. Depending of the polymeric ability to form a network, the rheological Tg can be up to 30° higher than the calorimetric Tg.