Most commercial parboiled rice is produced from high amylose content rice. Glutinous rice, which is lacking in amylose content, is generally consumed in Southeast Asian countries. Rare study of parboiling glutinous rice has been observed. In this study, glutinous rice was improved in head rice yield by a novel parboiling process. Two rough glutinous rice, RD6 and BGR cultivars, were soaked with hot water at 70±5 °C for 3 hours. The rice's moisture content after soaking was 50-52% (d.b.), it was dried with hot air and superheated steam at 110, 130 and 150 °C in a fluidized bed dryer. The results show that, superheated steam at all drying temperatures can improve the high head rice yield in both parboiled glutinous rice cultivars better than hot air drying. Higher temperature drying caused L* value to decrease but the b* value increases in RD6 whereas in BGR all color values decreased and ∆E* was increased when the drying temperature increased. Increasing drying temperature presented a softer texture of both glutinous rice cultivars. Upper 130 °C, completed gelatinization of both varieties can be obtained and seen by SEM and DSC. This technique of using high temperature fluidized Downloaded by [University of Cambridge] at 08:05 01 June 20162 bed drying can produce completely parboiled glutinous rice in a single process instead of two conventional processes, steaming and drying, in series.