The optimization of HMT and ANN treatment conditions for
various rice noodles was determined using their texture and cooking
quality. Conditions that obtained pasting, textural and rheological
properties comparable to commercial rice noodle flou rwere selected
(Fig. 1). Data points within the optimized area of each noodle
product were selected and run in triplicate for validation purposes.
Results in Table 3 show that there was no significant difference
between predicted value and observed value (P0.05). Rice flour
gel prepared by hydrothermal modification gave similar qualities to
those of commercial rice flour gel.