has been reported to correlate with ability of
starches to gel into semi solid paste. The lower setback viscosity
with increase in soybean flour and maize starch level may
be due to increased hydrogen bonding during cooling and
the high amylose content of maize starch. This leads to the
growth of gel micellar regions, and hence increase in index of
retrogradation (Hodge and Osman, 1971Otegbayo et al.
(2006) found that pounded yam samples with good textural
quality were produced from yam starch with higher setback
values