What Is Gelatinization In Cereal?

What Is Gelatinization In Cereal? Gelatinization in the narrowest sense is the thermal disordering of crystalline structures in native starch granules, but in the broader sense it includes related events such as swelling of the granules and leaching of soluble polysaccharides (Atwell et al 1988). What is gelatinisation state the importance of gelatinisation in cereals?