This implies that, the flour would be useful in the food processing industry as high retrogradation easily leads to staling of bread, quick precipitation and loss of viscosity in sauces.
The higher setback viscosity of the starch makes it suitable for the production of non-wheat noodles.
The high breakdown value of the starch is indicative of its low paste stability, this normally follows a high final viscosity, a parameter used to indicate stability of a paste.
The starch extract exhibited higher values for final viscosity and holding strength compared with the flour.
This observation was corroborated by findings of Ikegwu et al.
They observed higher final viscosity and holding strength values for achi starch compared with achi flour.
Generally, With the exception of the pasting temperature and time, the aerial yam starch extract exhibited high values in all the parameters measured than its flour component.