Effect of Modified Atmosphere Tent Combined with Modified Atmosphere Packaging on Cooking and Eating Quality of Storage Rice

Abstract

The characteristics of starch, such as gelatinization temperature (GT), apparent amylose content (AC), gel consistency (GC) and other physicochemical properties, determine the quality of various products of rice, e.g., eating, cooking and processing qualities. In this work, we using the big paddy hermetic tent as the modified atmosphere tent storage rice. And the effect of modified atmosphere tent (MAT) combined with modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) of 0.05mm PE (PE1) and 0.08mmPE (PE2) on cooking and eating quality were investigated. The results showed that the MAT&MAP of PE1 was the best treatment for milled rice eating and cooking quality fresh keeping. MAT & MAP was the distinctly energy conservation storage method for rice cooking and eating quality refreshing.