“…Isbell and Frush (1987) presented different mechanisms of the degradation of saccharides by hydrogen peroxide and reported that the formation of oxidation products, as well as their intensity, depends on the factors that influence the reaction, such as pH, reagent concentration, temperature and type of substrate. Shirai et al (2007) studied the effects of oxidation with hydrogen peroxide on starches from different sources (potato, sweet potato, cassava, maize and waxy maize); they found that only the cassava and waxy corn starches presented an expansion property (with values of 9.2 mL/g and 15.5 mL/g, respectively). The baking expansion might involve the reassociation of size-reduced starch molecules of amylose and/or amylopectin in amorphous regions (Bertolini, Mestres, Colonna, Lerner, & Dellavalle, 1998;Vatanasuchart et al, 2005).…”