The pasting properties and viscogram data of native and heat-treated starches using the rapid visco analyzer (RVA) are summarized in Table 1. After dry heat treatments, the pasting temperatures of dry heated starches were lower than those of unheated starches. Lim et al. [14] reported a similar phenomenon in waxy maize starch after heat treatment. Dry heat treatment without lysine resulted in a higher viscosity and a lower set back (Fig. 1) compared with corn starch. Corn starch–lysine mixture without dry heating raised the peak viscosities of corn starch and in the same time the trough viscosity, final viscosity and set back decreased (Table 1). A possible explanation for the differences between the pasting characteristics between heated and unheated starch could be that the moisture will be driven off during the heating and the magnitude of starch-chain associations within the amorphous regions and the degree of crystalline order was dependent upon the moisture content of the starch sample [16].