The effects of sugar type and concentration on the pastingproperties of wheat starch were assessed using a NewportScientific RVA 4 Rapid Visco Analyzer (Newport Scientific,Warriewood, Australia). Each sample contained 2.5 g ofwheat starch (9.9% moisture content) and 25.5 g of solutionwhich were combined directly in an aluminum canisterand stirred with the plastic paddle until the slurry (8%starch db) appeared homogeneous and no clumps werevisible. This was done within 2 min of the start of eachrun to maintain equal contact time between the starchand the sugar solutions before the pasting process. Thepaddle was zeroed every day prior running samples, andthe rapid visco analyzer (RVA) runs were conducted usingthe Standard 1 method. The paddle mixed the slurry at960 RPM for the first 10 s and at 160 RPM for the remain