The colour of dry starch noodles, cooking quality and texture of
cooked noodles are considered the most important quality characteristics.
Starch noodles should remain firm, not sticky when
standing after cooking, and have short cooking time with little loss
of solids in the cooking water (Galvez & Resurreccion, 1992). It was
observed that these characteristics of noodles from pea starch prepared
by twin-screw extrusion, except for brightness (L⁄ value) of
dry noodles, were significantly influenced by the processing conditions
(barrel temperature, screw speed and dough moisture
content). Therefore, optimisation of pea starch noodle-making process
by twin-screw extrusion should be based on obtaining a