提高大豆蛋白冻融后乳化性改性工艺优化

为了制备出经冷冻-融化后仍能保持较高乳化性的大豆蛋白,试验以葡聚糖为糖基化供体,采用湿法糖基化技术改性大豆蛋白。根据单因素试验的结果,建立了Box-Behnken模型对加工工艺进行优化,所得的模型拟合度高,切实可行,可用于实际分析和预测。利用响应面分析法探讨了蛋白浓度、蛋白与糖质量比、反应时间3因素对改性产物冻融前后乳化活性和乳化稳定性的影响,优化的工艺条件为:大豆分离蛋白(soybean protein isolate,SPI)质量浓度40 mg/mL,SPI与葡聚糖的质量比为1∶3,反应时间4 h。在此条件下得到的改性产物冻融稳定性显著(P0.05)高于未改性蛋白,冻融前后的乳化活性(emulsifying activity index,EAI)分别是空白对照样的1.687和1.780倍,乳化稳定性(emulsion stability index,ESI)分别是空白对照样的1.367和1.274倍。傅里叶红外光谱证明葡聚糖通过共价键接到大豆蛋白分子中,研究结果为制备冷冻食品加工专用大豆蛋白的产业化生产提供参考。

Processing optimization for improving soybean protein's emulsifying properties after freeze-thaw

Abstract: Soybean protein has become an important raw material in food processing industries due to its high nutritional value and good functional properties. One of the most important properties of (soybean protein isolate) SPI is emulsifying in food. However, native soy globulins function poorly because of their compact globular structures, which makes it difficult to be utilized directly in food processing. Protein stabilized emulsions are highly sensitive to environmental stresses such as low temperature, and therefore coalescence and creaming occur, which limit their utilization in frozen food. There are no soy protein products specialized for freeze-thaw foods in China. The quality of freeze-thaw foods will be destroyed by the low temperature because the functionalities of soy protein are difficult to maintain. Maillard reaction, a condensation reaction between the reducing end of carbohydrates and the primary amine of proteins, is a well accepted and safe method. This method is the modification of soy protein by maillard reaction for improved functionalities, its reaction processes are conducted without adding any catalyst by heating. In this paper, glycosylation reaction products were obtained under wet-heating conditions in order to improve their freeze-thaw stabilities. Special soy proteins were prepared to meet the demand of soybean proteins in the application of freeze-thaw food system. In order to prepare a kind of soy proteins that can maintain high emulsion after freeze-thaw, the soy protein was modified by wet glycosylation with the dextran as glycosylation donor. Box-behnken model optimizaiton processes were established. The resulting model can be used for analysis and prediction for its goodness of fit. The experiments were designed to explore the effects of three factors including protein concentration, mass ratio of protein and sugar, reaction time on freeze-thaw stability of modified products with response surface methodology. The optimum conditions were obtained with the protein concentration of 40 mg/mL, the mass ratio of protein and sugar of 1:3, and the reaction time of 4 h. The freeze-thaw stability of modified products obtained in this condition was significantly higher than unmodified samples. The emulsifying activity index (EAI) before and after freezing and thawing were 1.687 and 1.780 times of the control, 1.367 and 1.274 times of the control, respectively. The emulsifying properties of the SPI-D mixture were investigated in the study. The results indicated that the EAI and ESI of SPI-D conjugate were significantly higher than non-heated mixtures. The addition of dextran without heating has little effect on the freeze-thaw property of soy proteins, because the EAI and ESI of non-heated mixtures are not significantly different compared with the SPI.The results of the infrared spectrum showed that SPI-D conjugate in 3 700-3 200 cm-1 stretching vibration, compared to SPI appears a wider absorption, at 1 260-1 000 cm-1 also appears strong absorption. The results proved that the complexity of soy protein and dextran was caursed by the reaction. Compared to SPI, the superior performance of biopolymer conjugates in emulsions was attributed to the polysaccharide moiety of the hybrid, following adsorption of the protein part at the oil-water interface. This highly solvated layer near the interface, enhances steric repulsion forces between neighboring oil droplets and retards the creaming process. Therefore, using wet glycosylation to improve the freeze-thaw stability of SPI has applicable potential. This method provides a theoretical basis for special soy protein which is more suitable for producing frozen foods.