In general, fine-grained flours showed higher WBC values than coarse-grained flours, except for maize flour. The highest WHC values were for CPM and FM following by FPM, teff and FSR. The other flours had lower WHC values, with no differences between the different flours. We also observed that the two precooked maize flours had the highest SV and no clear trend was observed in SV among the remaining flours. Correlation analysis indicated positive correlations between damaged starch and hydration