Freeze-thaw stability of 8% dried basis of native and selected modified rice starch pastes subjected to five freeze-thaw cycles at thawing conditions of 30 C for 1 h is illustrated in table 5. It could be seen that native rice starch and modified rice starches showed similar patterns with highest % syneresis in the first cycle and then % syneresis gradually decreased to the fifth cycle. Native rice starch showed the decreasing of % syneresis from cycle 1 to cycle 5 of 16.86%, 16.26%, 11.46%, 10.01% and 7.31%, respectively. Percent syneresis of the combination of 1% STMP and 4% STPP was decreased in the first cycle to 5.91% and 2.22% for the last cycle. In contrast with, the % syneresis of the first cycle of modified rice starch with 1% STMP was increased up to 33.47% and 2.72% for the first and last cycle, respectively.