Table 1 showed that the value of k changes due to the addition of
BLD in comparison to wheat starch. In the present study, the values
of n indicated that the mode of all nucleation in starch recrystallization
followed an instantaneous mechanism (nuclei appear at
once) and that the growth of crystallites was rod-like growth (Liu &
Thompson, 1998). In addition, wheat starch (with F75) retrogrades
faster than wheat starch (with F88). Hence it is not difficult to
conclude that the presence of BLD affected the kinetics or the
extent of starch retrogradation.