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- Title
Quantitative analysis of total starch content in wheat flour by reaction headspace gas chromatography.
- Authors
Xie, Wei-Qi; Gong, Yi-Xian; Yu, Kong-Xian
- Abstract
This paper proposed a new reaction headspace gas chromatographic (HS-GC) method for efficiently quantifying the total starch content in wheat flours. A certain weight of wheat flour was oxidized by potassium dichromate in an acidic condition in a sealed headspace vial. The results show that the starch in wheat flour can be completely transferred to carbon dioxide at the given conditions (at 100 °C for 40 min) and the total starch content in wheat flour sample can be indirectly quantified by detecting the CO formed from the oxidation reaction. The data showed that the relative standard deviation of the reaction HS-GC method in the precision test was less than 3.06%, and the relative differences between the new method and the reference method (titration method) were no more than 8.90%. The new reaction HS-GC method is automated, accurate, and can be a reliable tool for determining the total starch content in wheat flours in both laboratory and industrial applications.
- Subjects
GAS chromatography/Mass spectrometry (GC-MS); VOLUMETRIC analysis; INDUSTRIAL applications; POTASSIUM dichromate; STARCH content of food
- Publication
Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2017, Vol 409, Issue 22, p5195
- ISSN
1618-2642
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00216-017-0494-4