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High-pressure homogenization (HPH) is an emerging process during which a fluid product is pumped by pressure intensifiers, forcing it to flow through a narrow gap, usually measured in the order of micrometers. Gums are polysaccharides from vegetal, animal or microbial origin and are widely employed in food and chemical industries as thickeners, stabilizers, gelling agents and emulsifiers. The choice of a specific gum depends on its application and purpose because each form of gum has particular values with respect to viscosity, intrinsic viscosity, stability, and emulsifying and gelling properties, with these parameters being determined by its structure. HPH is able to alter those properties positively by inducing changes in the original polymer, allowing for new applications and improvements with respect to the technical properties of gums. This review highlights the most important advances when this process is applied to change polysaccharides from distinct sources and molecular structures, as well as the future challenges that remain. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry.

High pressure processing (HPP) is an emerging technology capable of promoting structural changes in food. This work studies the effect of HPP at room temperature (50 MPa/1 or 10 min and 600 MPa/1 min) on the cotyledon structure, starch characteristics, tannins, and phytates of common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). The results show that all process conditions promote a partial disruption of the bean parenchymal cells, minor reduction in birefringence under polarized light microscopy and, for samples processed at 600 MPa for 1 min, a small reduction in the crystallinity intensity is observed. Moreover, the processes are able to reduce up to 40% of the tannin content but cause no loss of phytates. Thus, HPP can be used as a unit operation to improve the nutritional value of common beans and to enhance the exposure of starch granules, which possibly increases bean susceptibility to hydration/dehydration/cooking processes, allowing the production of easy‐to‐cook beans.

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