Megazyme K-RAPRS: Resistant Starch Assay Kit (Rapid)
Product code: K-RAPRS
The Resistant Starch Assay Kit (Rapid) method is suitable for the analysis of resistant starch in pure starch, cereal and legume seeds and food samples.
This method is an update of the method of McCleary et al1 (AOAC Method 2002.02, AACC Method 32-40.01) employing incubation conditions similar to those used in AOAC Method 2017.16 for dietary fiber. The enzyme mixture employed [pancreatic α-amylase (PAA) and amyloglucosidase (AMG)] are those used by Englyst et al.2 except that both enzymes have been purified, standardised and stabilised. Digestion is performed using saturating levels of PAA and AMG with stirring at pH 6 and 37oC for 4 h, to simulate in vivo conditions in the human small intestine. Recent studies on the hydrolysis of “newer” resistant starch materials such as phosphate crosslinked starch (RS4) indicated that these incubation conditions are an essential requirement to obtain meaningful physiologically relevant values for RS.
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 service the definition of DF announced by Codex Alimentarius in 2009.
| Content: | 100 assays 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: | Resistant Starch |
| Assay Format: | Spectrophotometer |
| Detection Method: | Absorbance |
| Wavelength (nm): | 510 |
| Signal Response: | Increase |
| Linear Range: | 4 to 100 mg of D-glucose per assay |
| Limit of Detection: | 0.036 g/100 g |
| Reaction Time (min): | ~ 5 h |
| Application examples: | Plant materials, starch samples and other materials. |
| Method recognition: | Novel method |
