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. 2024 Feb 29;61(10):1848–1861. doi: 10.1007/s13197-024-05952-y

Table 2.

Thermal, chemical, and combination processing of millets relating to the starch digestibility and its action

SI no Millet Processing RDS (%) SDS (%) RS (%) PGI Action References
Thermal treatments
1 Foxtail millet flour Heat moisture 12.46 8.65 19.25 Increase in SDS and RS, reduced glycaemic response Amadou et al. (2014)
2 Barnyard millet grain Microwave treatment 15.56 High RS content due to microwave drying Kanagaraj et al. (2019)
3 Foxtail millet Starch Annealing 41.53 16.15 42.32 The annealing promoted the interaction of amylose with amylose and amylopectin which increased the RS Babu et al. (2019)
4 Pearl millet starch Heat moisture 36.6–42.2 39.1–40.2 18.1–23.8 SDS and RS increased restricted the activity of alpha amylases Sandhu et al. (2020)
5 Sorghum grain Infra-red treatment with 30% moisture 12.64–30.87 40.07–51.85 48 Starch kafrin complex might have increased the RS and reduced GI Semwal and Meera (2021)
6 Sorghum starch Infra-red treatment with 30% moisture 4.57–14.27 37.55–47.92 61 Starch protein interaction with infra-red treatment increased the RS and reduced GI Semwal and Meera (2021)
7 Pearl millet flour Heat moisture 52.61 7.68 1.75 Crystalline disruption by heat moisture treatment and increased accessibility of enzymes Vinutha et al. (2022)
8 Pearl millet flour Infra-red 51.13 9.46 1.77 Crystalline disruption by infra-red treatment and increased accessibility of enzymes Vinutha et al. (2022)
Chemical treatments
9 Pearl millet starch Cross-linking 46.1–50.6 34.5–36.1 13.6–19.4 Increase in RS reduced the activity of alpha amylase Siroha and Sandhu (2018)
10 Pearl millet starch Acetylation (5.0%) 45.4 27.3 27.3 Increase in RS restricted the activity of digestive enzyme Siroha et al. (2019)
11 Foxtail millet starch Succinilayation 76.31 15.39 8.29 Reduced in RDS with increase in SDS and RS Babu and Mohan (2019)
Combination of treatments
12 Foxtail millet flour Heat moisture and fermentation 15.92 18.42 22.68 Combination has promoted increase RDS and RS due to proteolysis of starch Amadou et al. (2014)
13 Foxtail millet starch Acid treated and succinilayted 69.58 12.22 18.19 Acid hydrolysis increased amylopectin regions which increased RS Babu and Mohan (2019)
14 Foxtail millet Ultrasonication and annealing 40.57 13.84 45.59 The combination treatment promoted the interactions of amylose with amylose and lipid which lead to increase in crystallinity and increase in RS Babu et al. (2019)
15 Pearl millet flour Heat moisture and infra-red 49.23 12.34 1.75 SDS increased Vinutha et al. 2022)

RDS Rapidly digestible starch; SDS Slowly digestible starch; RS Resistant starch; PGI Predicted glycaemic index