Carbohydrate Research
Research Interests
- Application of HPLC, UPLC, HPAEC, GC-MS, LC-QTOF and NMR in structural studies of carbohydrates and polysaccharides
- NMR in Food Chemistry
- Starch Chemistry and Digestibility
- Food and Health
Structural Analysis
- Monosaccharide composition – Gas chromatography
- Nuclear magnetic resonance (Interdepartmental-Chemistry Dept.)
- High pressure liquid chromatography
- Low pressure liquid chromatography
- Thin layer chromatography
- Scanning electron microscopy (Interdepartmental-USDA)
- High pressure anion exchange chromatography – DIONEX
- LC-QTOF for metabolic profiling studies
- X-ray diffraction (Interdepartmental-Chemistry Dept.)
- Starch chain length distribution – DIONEX
- MALS detector
Physiochemical and Rheological Properties
- Differential scanning calorimetry
- Fundamental rheology – Stresstech Rheometer
- Pasting profile – Rapid visco analyzer
- Texture analysis – TA-XT2i
- End product application – baking, noodles etc.
