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Potato flour is used in bakery products, extruded products and snacks. However, it displays weaker gel strengths and thus the wholesome utility is curtailed significantly. To improve viscoelastic properties and stability of potato gels, herein potato flour was treated with laccase and peroxidase to create a protein network structure leading to stable gels. The results revealed that the secondary structure of potato proteins altered upon the enzyme treatment. The gels of peroxidase-treated potato flour (PPF) and laccase-treated potato flour (LPF) displayed larger anti-shear ability, thermal stability and stronger three-dimensional network structure compared to the native potato gel. The PPF and LPF gels exhibited stronger viscoelastic properties and structural stability compared to peroxidase-treated potato protein and laccase-treated potato protein gels. The outcome serves as a theoretical basis to improve the properties of potato gels and to promote the designing and the development of novel potato flour based functional food.

Sweet potato starch products possess unacceptable hardness and poor transparency that in-turn reduces consumer acceptability. To expand the sweet potato starch utility with user acceptable and palatable food products herein enzyme modification has been carried out. Transglucosidase (TGAN) in combination with maltogenic α-amylase (MABS) and β-amylase (BA) appears to be advantageous to modulate sweet potato starch properties. The MABS → BA → TGAN treatment increases the α-1, 6 glycosidic linkage ratio and short chain proportions (DP ≤ 24). Decrease in chain length, molecular weight and long chain proportions (DP > 24) is noticed. The initial C-type starch polymorphic structure transforms to B-type structure along with decreased crystallinity. Solubility increases substantially with concomitant decrease in viscosity, gelatinization temperature and melting enthalpy. The outcome is believed to open new pathways for regulating the physicochemical properties of sweet potato starch especially by enzyme modification to the design and development of novel sweet potato starch-based products.