white rice. This indicated that operating at severe drying condition
did not affect the head coated rice. From this result, it implied that
the collision among fluidizing particles was not strong enough and
thus the head coated rice yield was not decreased although the TCR
kernels in the bed cracked. Nonetheless, a large number of fissured
TCR may not be accepted by consumer since they broke to small
pieces after cooking which lead to a poor textural quality