Physicochemical, Thermal, Rheological and Morphological Characteristics of Starch from Three Indian Lotus Root (Nelumbo Nucifera Gaertn) Cultivars

Bioactive components, physicochemical and starch characteristics of different parts of lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) plant: a review

“…Figure1Morphology of lotus starch granules obtained from different locations and cultivars (a,b,c) small rounded and typical oval shaped of Lotus stem starch(Gani et al, 2013). Small rounded and typical oval shaped of Lotus stem starch(Gani et al, 2013) (d,e) Round oval and elongated of Lotus root starch(Syed & Singh, 2013) (f) Round, elliptic, elongated of Lotus root starch(Syed & Singh, 2013) (g) Polymorph Elongated, oval of Lotus rhizome(Yu et al, 2013) (h) Polymorph, elongated round of Lotus rhizome(Yu et al, 2013) (i) small rounded and oval of Lotus rhizome(Geng et al, 2007) (j) Large and rod shaped with very fine wrinkles of lotus rhizome(Suzuki et al, 1992) (k) Hemispherical facets, dents, hollows at one end of Lotus stem(Sukhija et al, 2016) (l) Elongated, ellipsoid, oval, and spherical of acid modified Lotus rhizome(Lin et al, 2015).…”