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The objective of this study was to establish the relation between the calcium sequestering capacity (SC) of dicarboxy‐starch and that of dicarboxy‐inulin, and the oxidation degree of these products. An S‐type curve is obtained when plotting the SC of oxidized starch versus the degree of oxidation. By contrast the sequestering capacity of dicarboxy‐inulin increases linearly with the degree of oxidation. The difference in behaviour of these materials can be attributed to the fact that upon starch oxidation the favourable oxydiacetate structure is obtained only after substantial conversion, whereas in inulin this structure is obtained immediately and is present in each oxidized fructose unit.
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Besemer et al. (1994) studied this question.
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