The addition of corn starch, potato starch and tapioca starch could
decrease the cooking loss and the gel strength of surimi–beef gels.
Gels with corn starch had the highest cooking loss, while those with
potato starch showed the maximum gel strength. During the sol–gel
transitions of surimi–beef complexes, the maximum value of storage
modulus was obtained from the samples containing corn starch. The
addition of starch caused the increase of L* values of surimi–beef
gels. Results showed that the excessive amount of starch resulted in
the decrease in gel strength of surimi–beef gels.