Megazyme K-DSTRS: Digestible and Resistant Starch Assay Kit
Product code: K-DSTRS
The Digestible and Resistant Starch Assay Kit (K-DSTRS) for the determination of digestible, resistant and total starch in starch samples, plant and other materials.
This method is based on the research of Englyst et al. (Ref) with some modifications. Digestion is performed using saturating levels of pancreatic α-amylase (PAA) and amyloglucosidase (AMG), but in stirred containers rather than shaken tubes, to simplify sample removal.
In line with Englyst definitions:
Rapidly digestible starch (RDS) is that starch which is digested within 20 min.
Slowly digestible starch (SDS) is that starch which is digested between 20 and 120 min.
A new term, ‘Total digestible starch (TDS)’ is introduced (and measured) to cover all starch that is digested within 4 h (the average time of residence of food in the human small intestine).
Resistant starch (RS) then, is that starch which is not digested within 4 h.
The incubation conditions parallel those used in AOAC Method 2017.16, a new, rapid integrated procedure for the measurement of total dietary fiber (Megazyme method K-RINTDF). This method is physiologically based and designed to fit the definition of DF announced by Codex Alimentarius in 2009.
| Content: | 40 assays of each per kit |
| Shipping Temperature: | Ambient |
| Storage Temperature: | Short term stability: 2-8oC, Long term stability: See individual component labels |
| Stability: | > 2 years under recommended storage conditions |
| Analyte: | Digestible Starch, Resistant Starch, Total Starch |
| Assay Format: | Spectrophotometer |
| Detection Method: | Absorbance |
| Wavelength (nm): | 510 |
| Signal Response: | Increase |
| Linear Range: | 4 to 100 μg of D-glucose per assay |
| Limit of Detection: | 3.1 g/100 g |
| Reaction Time (min): | ~ 360 min |
| Application examples: | Plant materials, starch samples and other materials. |
