Presently, rice cultivars are categorized according to amylose content into three groups: low, medium and high amylose content cultivars. The correlation of amylose content with gelatinization properties, retrogradation, and pasting properties of eleven cultivars of Thai rice were investigated. Rice flour was prepared from milled rice by the wet grinding process. Onset (To), peak (Tp) and conclusion (Tc) temperatures of gelatinization, (determined by DSC) were found to be highly positively correlated with amylose levels. This correlation could be used for prediction of amylose content of rice flour. Low amylose starch could also be characterized by low degree of retrogradation (%R). The data obtained from RVA‐viscograms (peak viscosity, breakdown, setback, and pasting temperature) can be used only for characterization of the group of low amylose starches (waxy rice). It was demonstrated that low amylose rice starch provided the highest peak viscosity and breakdown and the lowest setback and pasting temperature among the groups investigated.

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Tapioca starch was partially hydrolyzed in hydrochloric acid solution at room temperature for various lengths of time to obtain high‐crystalline starches. RVA viscoamylograms of acid‐modified starches demonstrated a very low viscosity as compared to that of native tapioca starch. The relative crystallinity of native and acid‐modified tapioca starches were measured by X‐ray diffraction ranging from 39.53% to 57.75%. The native and acid‐modified tapioca starches were compressed into tablets using various compression forces. The % relative crystallinity of starch increased with the increase in hydrolysis time and the crushing strength of the tablet was also increased in line with the crystallinity while the amylose content decreased when the crystallinity increased. These results suggested that the erosion of amylose might cause the rearrangement of starch structure into a new more tightly packed form, which provided the higher crushing strength for the tablets.

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