Fig. 2B illustrates the cross-section of raw rice noodles. Clearly,
starch granules were gelatinized and the network of rice gels made
from R95:M5 was much more compacted. The cross-section of
starch noodles resulted from retrogradation (Kasemsuwan et al.,
1998), and thus the result in Fig. 2B might be attributed to the
difference in retrogradation between R100:M0 and R95:M5. This
difference in turn could be used to explain the improvement in
elasticity, the decrease in cooking loss and the variation in textural
characteristics for rice noodles made from R95:M5.