Although the sugar solutions in this study resulted inhigher Tgels than the Tgel of starch in water, all sampleshad a single “G” endotherm (Waigh et al., 2000) and theenthalpy of gelatinization (i.e., the energy involved withthe melting of the crystalline regions) was not significantlydifferent (results not shown). Therefore, the gelatinization event itself was generally the same in water versussugar solutions except it occurred at higher temperaturesin sugar solutions. Similar findings were reported in arecent study conducted on samples with higher sugar solution to starch ratios (4:1) (Renzetti et al., 2021). As starch isheated in solution, the solvent penetrates the amorphous regions of the granule, interacts with the starch, changesthe thermodynamic state of the granule, and the presenceof sugars elevated the melting temperature of the crystalline regions more than water alone (van der Sman &Mauer, 2019). T