Cooking loss
Approximately 10g noodles were cooked in 300mL of distilled water in a 500 mL beaker until the central opaque core in the noodle strand disappeared. Cooking loss (%) was measured by transferring the cook water to a preweighed beaker and evaporating the water in a conventional oven overnight at 100℃, then reweighing the beaker with left over solids. Cooking quality analysis was performed in triplicate [1]. Cooking Loss (%) = (dried residue in cooking water/noodle weight before cooking)×100