3.3. Cooking quality of dried rice noodle
Cooking yield and cooking loss are two important factors related to the cooking quality of noodle. A good rice noodle should have a short cooking time with little cooking loss (Hormdok & Noomhorm, 2007). High cooking loss in starch noodles represents high solubility of the starch and low cooking tolerance, which leads to a sticky noodle texture (Bhattacharya, Zee, & Corke, 1999). The cooking yields of dried rice noodle with and without NaCl were not significantly different (p > 0.05) ( Table 1). This indicated that water absorption was not influenced by NaCl and this result was consistent with the MRI result at 4 min of cooking ( Fig. 4B).