were placed in a sterilized beaker with 600 mL of boiling distilled
water, and the beaker was covered with aluminum foil to minimize
evaporation loss. Water absorption was expressed as the ratio of
(weight difference between cooked and uncooked noodles) to
(weight of uncooked noodles). Cooking loss was measured by
drying the cooking and rinsing water at 105 C for reaching a
constant weight, and the cooking loss was the ratio of (the constant
weight) to (dry weight of uncooked noodle). Broken rate of rice
noodles was the ratio of (the amount of broken cooked rice noodle
strands) to (the amount of uncooked noodle strands).