Microstructure of olbyeossal,partially milled parboiled glutinous rice made by modified parboiling method

The microstructure of partially milled parboiled glutinous rice (PMPGR) before and after cooking was investigated using scanning electron microscopy to identify the changes in the microstructure due to parboiling treatments. Parboiling was performed in two different ways: conventional and modified. The conventional parboiling method involved soaking at room temperature for 24 h, followed by steaming and drying. The modified parboiling method involved tumbling to replace soaking of the rice grains, tempering, retorting, and drying. The microstructures of the PMPGR made using both methods were compared. The modified parboiling method significantly changed the microstructure of the rice, but cooking did not cause considerable changes in the microstructure of PMPGR.     

Technological properties of microwave parboiled rice

Two rice varieties, a short grain (Giza 175) and a long grain (Giza 181), were parboiled by soaking in water at 80–85 °C for 1.5 h and then dried in the microwave oven for 3, 5, 6 and 8 min. The effect of such parboiling treatment on milling output and technological properties (cooking and eating quality) of milled rice were studied. There was a negative significant correlation between head rice and the drying time and a positive correlation between the drying time and the broken grains. The effect of such treatment on the chemical composition of milled parboiled rice, i.e. amylose, protein, fat and ash contents, showed that the amylose content of Giza 175 variety significantly decreased while not affect in Giza 181 variety. No significant differences were obtained in protein, fat and ash contents by increasing drying time. Microwave drying was more pronounced on Giza 175 variety rather than Giza 181 one. However, the optimum cooking time of the parboiled samples of the two varieties was not affected as a result of increasing the microwave drying time.     

稻谷水热加工过程中镉迁移规律研究

目的研究稻谷在蒸谷米水热加工过程中镉的迁移规律。方法以蒸谷米小试装置及生产线采集样品为研究对象,在优化碾米时间的基础上,在排除水分含量差异对测定结果的前提下,利用统计分析考察水热工艺(浸泡和蒸煮)对稻谷各部分(稻壳、米糠和精米)镉含量的影响。结果由实验数据推断,在水热过程中,镉的迁移主要发生在稻谷的内部,且主要是在浸泡时从精米向米糠迁移富集,而蒸煮工艺则对镉的分布变化影响很小;经过浸泡,精米中的镉含量可降低约40%;推测热水的浸泡一方面使胚乳淀粉分子间游离的镉部分溶出,一方面促使镉向络合能力更强的米糠蛋白迁移,最终导致其分布发生明显变化。结论该研究为在稻谷加工过程中实现重金属镉的消减提供了科学依据。     

Studies on Expanded Rice. Optimum Processing Conditions

Optimum conditions of parboiling, milling and puffing for making expanded rice were studied on a small laboratory scale. Optimum puffing was obtained by heating milled parboiled rice at a moisture content of 10.5–11% with 15 times its weight of fme sand at 250°C for 10–11 sec. Raw and mildly parboiled rice gave minimal expansion, which increased with increasing severity of parboiling up to a steam pressure of 1.5 kg/cm². However, rice parboiled by heating with sand (250°C, 2.5 min) expanded best. Starch retrogradation after parboiling reduced expansion, as did cracked and broken grains and insufficient milling of the rice. Addition of salt increased expansion. Expansion initially increased and then decreased with increasing age of paddy after harvest.     

Parboiling of rice. Part I: Effect of hot soaking time on quality of milled rice

This study investigated the effect of soaking time on the quality of parboiled rice. The paddy was soaked in water at 25 and 80 °C for 15, 30, 45, 60 and 120 min. The soaked paddy was steamed, dried, stored and milled. With increasing soaking time a significant increase in water absorption and milling and head rice yield (hence reduction in broken rice) was observed. A significant difference in milling yield, at the 1% level, was obtained between the raw rice control and the hot soaked parboiled samples. A large reduction in fissured grain was observed after soaking. It is suggested that parboiling fills the void spaces and cements the cracks inside the endosperm, making the grain harder and minimizing internal fissuring and thereby breakage during milling.     

Functional Properties as Affected by Laboratory‐Scale Parboiling of Rough Rice and Brown Rice

ABSTRACT: Rough rice (RR) is the conventional feedstock for parboiling. The use of brown rice (BR) instead of RR is gaining interest because it results in shorter processing time and lower energy requirement. This study compared the functional properties of milled parboiled rice under different parboiling conditions from RR and BR. Presoaked RR and BR from cultivars Bolivar, Cheniere, Dixiebelle, and Wells were parboiled under mild (20 min, 100 °C, 0 kPa) and severe (20 min, 120 °C, 98 kPa) laboratory‐scale conditions. Head rice yield improved on the RR and BR samples subjected to severe parboiling and was comparable to that of a commercially parboiled sample. Mild parboiling of BR resulted in lower head rice yields. Parboiling generally resulted in decreased head rice whiteness, decreased apparent amylose, increased total lipid, and sparingly changed protein content. Under the same parboiling conditions, the extent of starch gelatinization was higher for BR compared to RR as manifested by some distinct differences in pasting and thermal properties. The cooking characteristics (water uptake ratio, leached materials, and volumetric expansion) and cooked rice texture (hardness and stickiness) of RR and BR subjected to severe parboiling were fairly comparable. Differences in parboiled rice functional properties due to cultivar effect were evident.     

Impact of parboiling conditions on Maillard precursors and indicators in long-grain rice cultivars

The effect of steaming conditions (mild, intermediate and severe) during parboiling of five different long-grain rice cultivars (brown rice cultivars Puntal, Cocodrie, XL8 and Jacinto, and a red rice) on rice colour, and Maillard precursors and indicators was investigated. Rice colour increased with severity of parboiling conditions. Redness increased more than yellowness when parboiling brown rice. Parboiling turned red rice black. It changed the levels of glucose, fructose, sucrose, and maltose. Losses of the non-reducing sugar, sucrose were caused by both leaching into the soaking water and enzymic conversion, rather than by thermal degradation during steaming. Concentrations of the reducing sugars, glucose and fructose, in intermediately parboiled rice were higher than those of mildly parboiled rice. After severe parboiling, glucose levels were lower than those of intermediately parboiled rice, while fructose levels were higher. These changes were ascribed to the sum of losses in the Maillard reaction (MR), formations as a result of starch degradation and isomerisation of glucose into fructose. It was clear that the ε-amino group of protein-bound lysine was more affected by parboiling conditions and loss in MRs, than that of free lysine. Low values of the MR indicators furosine and free 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furaldehyde (HMF) in processed brown and red rices were related to mild parboiling, whereas high furosine and low free HMF levels were indicative of rices being subjected to intermediate processing conditions. High furosine and high free HMF contents corresponded to severe hydrothermal treatments. The strong correlation (r = 0.89) between the free HMF levels and the increase in redness of parboiled brown rices suggested that Maillard browning was reflected more in the red than in the yellow colour.     

ENZYME CHANGES IN ROUGH RICE DURING PARBOILING

The enzymes amylase, protease, phosphatase and β-glucosidase in rough rice (paddy) were activated during the soaking step of parboiling. The extent of activation of these enzymes varied with the soaking duration and the parboiling methods adopted. Highest activities were observed in the cold soaking method followed by the double steaming and household methods. β-Glucosidase activity was eliminated in the presteaming stage of the double steaming process. Hot soaking inactivated all these enzymes. The steam in the parboiling process inactivated the enzymes partly while the pressure parboiling process inactivated them totally. Studies with purified enzymes also revealed the activation of enzymes during soaking. Enzyme activity contributes to the loss of solids during soaking and also to the characteristic odor of parboiled rice.     

Cooking qualities of parboiled rices produced at low and high temperatures

The cooking characteristics of parboiled rice are related to (i) its hydration behaviour at temperatures above and below the gelatinisation point; (ii) to kernel elongation on cooking; and (iii) to the extent of amylose solubility. These properties differ among samples, depending on the parboiling conditions. Samples were prepared by parboiling paddy at 70, 80, 90, 100, 110 and 120°C. The kernel elongation on cooking and the amount of soluble amylose in the gruel were then determined. The water uptake values for raw and parboiled rice samples were determined by hydrating them at room temperature (25-30), 60 and 98°C (boiling temperature) for optimal cooking times. The rate of hydration at temperatures below the gelatinisation point increased on parboiling and, conversely, a reverse pattern above this point. Close correlations existed between the temperature of parboiling and the properties studied. The different properties studied also correlated well. The temperature of parboiling influenced the linear elongation of the kernel after cooking. The soluble amylose content was negatively correlated with the temperature of parboiling. Though the hydration properties of different parboiled samples differed among themselves, depending on the degree of parboiling, they fell into two distinct classes, viz. the samples parboiled at a temperature close to the gelatinisation point having cooking qualities similar to raw rice, and above this point qualities differing from raw rice. The water uptake values at room temperature and at 60°C, and the ratio of water uptake at 98°C and optimum cooking time to that at 60°C were found to be useful in differentiating the parboiled rices into the two classes.     

Parboiling improved oxidative stability of milled white rice during one-year storage

Parboiling was investigated to improve the long-term oxidative stability of milled white rice beyond its current application to paddy brown rice. White rice was steamed at 105°C for 20 min, 120°C for 5 min, or 120°C for 20 min without soaking in water, followed by drying at 70°C for 3 h. During oneyear storage at 25 and 4°C, acid value as an index of oxidative deterioration of rice remained relatively constant in parboiled rice samples, while significant increases were observed in raw rice with higher acid values at 25°C compared with 4°C. This indicates that the parboiling improved the oxidative stability of white rice over the long period of time even at room temperature, therefore it can be an efficient alternative to retard the oxidative deterioration of white rice.     

Key factors affecting Fe density in Fe-fortified-parboiled rice: Parboiling conditions,storage duration,external Fe-loading rate and genotypic differences

The present study evaluated the key factors affecting the efficiency of iron (Fe) penetration into the endosperm in parboiled rice of different varieties. It also investigated effects of storage time on Fe bio-accessibility, rice colour and Fe retention after rinsing. Rice grains of three varieties were fortified with an increasing range of Fe-fortification rates during the parboiling process, under two typical parboiling conditions, which are ambient soaking temperature for 24 h and 60 °C soaking temperature for 6 h at neutral (6.0–6.5) and acidic pH (3.0–3.5). Soaking of paddy rice, at 60 °C in acidic water for 6 h before steaming, was found to be better for maximising the Fe concentration in white-parboiled rice than the former ambient soaking. Under this parboiling condition, adding 250 mg Fe kg⁻¹ of paddy rice, at soaking, produced the most desirable Fe concentration in white rice, ranging from 17.5 to 25.4 mg kg⁻¹ among the rice varieties tested. The concentrations of Fe in parboiled white rice exhibited an exponential increase with increasing concentrations of Fe in the soaking water in all varieties, which were linearly related to Fe concentration of brown rice (r = 0.96∗∗, p < 0.01). The colour of the parboiled rice fortified with Fe was initially light yellow, with variation among rice varieties, but it did become slightly darker after 16 weeks of storage, probably because of Fe oxidisation. This may be related to decreasing bio-accessibility after 20 weeks of storage. Storage, however, did not affect the total Fe retention after rinsing, though the retention rate was variety-dependent. Information about parboiling will provide the basis for formulating an optimal industry protocol for producing Fe-fortified-parboiled rice, which can be further refined in pilot studies on the industrial scale.     

Quality changes in HTST processing of rice parboiling

Paddy soaked to saturation level, when treated at a high temperature for a short time in a mechanical sand roaster is parboiled and dried in a single pass of 47 s duration. The extent of drying depends on the sand temperature. The sand temperature is critical as it decides the associated quality changes in the milled rice. Even at a sand temperature of 125°C, paddy could fully be parboiled but with mild effect. The parboiling became severe at high temperatures. Roasting the soaked paddy at 250°C, reduced the cooking time of the resultant milled rice. A sand temperature of 125–150°C was considered suitable for producing normal parboiled rice by this technique.     

蒸谷晚籼米的制备及其无机元素和农药残留分析

对蒸谷晚籼米加工工艺中的浸泡、汽蒸、干燥三个重要环节进行了实验,并对蒸谷晚籼米中重要无机元素含量和有机磷农药残留进行了分析。实验结果表明,蒸谷晚籼米制备过程中浸泡、汽蒸和干燥的工艺条件为:在70℃水中浸泡2.5h,于100℃下汽蒸30min,先在110℃下干燥3h后,再在60℃下干燥4h。在此条件下生产的蒸谷晚籼米爆腰率为7.6%,远低于普通白米加工的爆腰率;蒸谷后晚籼米总灰分含量比未蒸谷前增加了34.5%,其中Ca、Fe、Zn等重要无机元素的含量明显增加;此外蒸谷晚籼米中未检出有机磷农药,说明蒸谷晚籼米食用安全性高。     

Effect of soaking medium on the physicochemical properties of parboiled glutinous rice of selected Laotian cultivars

The effect of various soaking mediums, viz. water (control), 3% NaCl and 0.2% acetic acid, and without soaking on the physicochemical properties of parboiled selected glutinous (TDK8 and TDK11) and non-glutinous (Doongara) was investigated in the present study. Results showed that the chemistry of soaking had a significant effect on the head rice yield (HRY), grain hardness, crystallinity, color, pasting and thermal properties, textural attributes, and glycemic index of these rice varieties. Soaking with NaCl and acetic acid significantly increased the grain hardness and HRY than control and without soaking treatments. Acetic acid and NaCl soaking significantly affected crystalline regions of starch resulting in reduced crystallinity in X-ray diffraction analysis and thermal endotherms in DSC analysis. NaCl soaking induced swelling of starch granules resulting in high peak and final viscosities. However, acetic acid restricted swelling resulting in reduced peak and final viscosities. NaCl and acetic acid soakings also resulted in increased hardness and adhesiveness of cooked grains than normal water soaked and un-soaked parboiled rice samples. Interestingly, change in textural attributes was prominent in parboiled glutinous rice. The color difference value for fresh parboiled samples was significantly lower for acetic acid soaked samples compared to NaCl soaked and un-soaked samples probably due to bleaching effect of acetic acid. Moreover, parboiling also resulted in significant reduction in glycemic index of glutinous rice. These findings revealed the potential application of parboiling with modified soaking techniques to improve the grain quality.     

Folic acid fortification of parboiled rice: Multifactorial analysis and kinetic investigation

Folic acid fortification of parboiled rice has been systematically studied to obtain quantitative insights into the role of key process variables. Parboiling was conducted with brown rice soaked at 70 °C for 1, 2 and 3 h with four different fortificant concentrations added and dried parboiled rice was milled for three durations (i.e. 0, 60 and 120 s). Both residual folate concentration in treated parboiled rice and pH of the soaking water after soaking stages were measured. Multifactorial model was developed to describe the residual folate retention behaviour and suggested that both soaking and milling were significant factors in folic acid fortification. The optimum soaking time was deduced to be 1.97 h. Folate retention rate followed a 1st order kinetics while the rates of natural rice hydrolysis and folate uptake were both time-dependent.     

Rice degree of milling effects on hydration,texture, sensory and energy characteristics. Part 1. Cooking using excess water

The purpose was to assess the effect of degree of milling (DOM) on cooking kinetics, sensory attributes, and energy requirements when cooking rice in excess water. Commercial milling equipment was adjusted to produce parboiled and non-parboiled rice samples that were milled to varying DOMs, including brown rice lots having no milling. Surface lipid content (SLC) ranged from 0.15% to 0.55% for non-parboiled rice and from 0.40% to 0.95% for parboiled rice. The percentage gelatinized kernels, moisture content, peak force and sensory attributes were determined as a function of cooking duration for all samples. The cooking duration required to attain ‘well-cooked’ rice was determined, after which the energy required for cooking was measured. Within the SLC range tested, DOM did not affect cooking kinetics, texture and flavor of rice. Non-parboiled brown rice required the most energy, expressed as energy per unit mass of uncooked rice, to be cooked, followed by parboiled brown, parboiled milled and non-parboiled milled rice.     

Rice degree of milling effects on hydration,texture, sensory and energy characteristics. Part 2. Cooking using fixed,water-to-rice ratios

The purpose was to assess the effects of degree of milling on hydration and textural characteristics of rice cooked using a range of water-to-rice ratios, and to compare the energy requirements when using these fixed water-to-rice ratios to the energy required when cooking with excess-water. Surface lipid contents (SLCs) ranged from 0.15% to 0.55% for non-parboiled rice and from 0.40% to 0.95% for parboiled rice. Cooking degree was assessed by measuring cooked-rice peak force, moisture content and percentage gelatinized kernels. Milling degree had little to no effect on cooking characteristics of all milled samples. Differences in cooking characteristics between milled and brown rice were less pronounced for parboiled than non-parboiled rice. Non-parboiled milled rice required the least energy to be ‘well-cooked’, followed by parboiled milled rice, non-parboiled brown rice, and parboiled brown rice (there were no significant differences between non-parboiled and parboiled brown rice). In general, excess-water cooking required more energy than fixed water-to-rice ratio cooking.     

Studies on parboiled rice: Part 1—Comparison of the characteristics of raw and parboiled rice

Various properties of raw and parboiled rice were compared in an effort to elucidate the factors responsible for the changes induced by parboiling.The parboiled rice was less prone to disintegration on cooking, the kernels remaining well separated and less sticky than the non-parboiled sample. The solids leached into the cooking water and the extent of solubilisation of the kernels on cooking were both considerably lowered by parboiling. Amylograms of flour prepared from the rice revealed that this was due to the resistance of the starch in the parboiled rice to swelling and solubilisation in hot water.From the results of X-ray diffraction spectra it was concluded that the behaviour of parboiled rice is influenced by the presence of an insoluble helical amylose complex and not, as is generally assumed, by retrogradation.     

Laboratory Process Development and Physicochemical Characterization of a Low Amylose and Hydrothermally Treated Ready-to-Eat Rice Product Requiring No Cooking

A low amylose and hydrothermally treated ready-to-eat rice product that requires no cooking was prepared in the laboratory. Hot soaking for 1–3 min with subsequent variable steaming at open and under pressures remarkably altered the kernel and flour properties. Increase in water absorption and lowering of cooking time with extent of steaming were prominent. Soaking of the product at 50 °C for 20 min gave texture values more similar to cooked samples. The viscosity parameters of hot soaking alone were in between those of hot soaking with open steaming and pressure steaming. Pressure steamed samples exhibited almost constantly increasing slurry viscosity throughout the heating and cooling phases of the rapid viscosity analyzer profile. Steaming variably altered the native A-type X-ray diffraction pattern. Pressure steaming of samples with 3 min hot soaking caused complete loss of the A-type conformation with feeble peaks for B- and V-type patterns. The open steamed samples showed peaks for all A-, B-, and V-type patterns. No endotherms for amylose-lipid complexes were however found in the differential scanning calorimetry of the pressure steamed samples. The raw rice flour was highly resistant to α-amylolysis. In open steamed samples, steaming severity decreased the hydrolysis rate indicating formation of enzyme-resistant fractions, while pressure steamed samples showed higher digestibility with treatment severity.     

Effect of parboiling on thiamin, protein and fat of rice

Parboiling decreased the thiamin content of rice. Nevertheless, milled parboiled rice contained more thiamin than milled raw rice at the same degree of milling because parboiling caused thiamin to diffuse inwardly. Both the degree of loss and the degree of diffusion depended on the severity of the heat treatment. Bran-polish of parboiled rice had a higher fat and protein content than bran-polish of raw rice at the same degree of milling because the starchy endosperm of parboiled rice had a greater resistance to milling and so the bran and the germ were more effectively removed. Milled parboiled rice tended to have lower protein content than milled raw rice. Starch content was lower in bran-polish from parboiled rice.