Hellebois T, Gaiani C, Soukoulis C. Impact of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) galactomannan on the microstructural and physicochemical changes of milk proteins under static in-vitro digestion conditions.
Food Chem X 2022;
14:100330. [PMID:
35615260 PMCID:
PMC9125660 DOI:
10.1016/j.fochx.2022.100330]
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Abstract
The impact of alfalfa galactomannan (AAG) on the digestibility of milk proteins was studied.
AAG mediated the intragastric aggregation of both sodium caseinate and whey protein isolate.
AAG affected only the peptic cleavage of caseins and β-lactoglobulin in the gastric chymes.
AAG enhanced the free amino acids release in the gastric chymes regardless of the protein type.
The free amino acids release rate in the intestinal chymes were adversely related to AAG content.
This paper reports on the impact of alfalfa galactomannan (AAG, 0.1, 0.5 or 1% wt.) on the colloidal changes and digestibility of sodium caseinate (NaCN) and whey protein isolate (WPI) dispersions (10% wt.) under static in-vitro digestion conditions. Static laser light scattering and confocal laser scanning microscopy-assisted assessment of the NaCN-based gastric chymes confirmed the ability of AAG to control the acid-induced protein coagulation phenomena. Contrarily, the presence of AAG in the WPI-based gastric chymes was associated with the formation of larger aggregates due to the occurrence of segregative microphase separation. The kinetic modelling of the SDS-PAGE densitometric data showed that the intragastric peptic cleavage rates were higher for caseins than whey proteins (β-lactoglobulin, α-lactalbumin). However, free amino acid (FAA) release rates did not exceed 12% under intragastric conditions, whilst notably higher release rates were achieved in the intestinal digesta (36–52%). In all cases, the FAA release rates significantly increased in the presence of AAG.
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