Unlike
the wheat-based noodles, rice noodle is free of gluten and its
quality mainly depends on the physicochemical properties of rice
starch, which contributes to the formation of structural network
(Sandhu, Kaur, & Mukesh, 2010). The texture of rice noodles is
closely related to amylose content, solubility, swelling power and
pasting properties of rice starch (Hormdok & Noomborm, 2007).
Rice noodles are mainly produced via a traditional process,
which is a long discontinuous period with high energy consumption.
The inevitable overnight rice soaking in this process is timeconsuming
and water-wasting. And the subsequent step of
filtering is always accompanied with a high solid loss (Charutigon,
Jitpupakdree, Namsree, & Rungsardthong, 2008). To overcome
these disadvantages, Charutigon et al. (2008) proposed a new