Table 1. Water absorption index (WAI) and water solubility index (WSI) of floury rice powder (FRP) and FRP-starch (ST) mixtures
Source | WAI (g/g) | WSI (%) |
ST only | FRP-ST mixture | ST only | FRP-ST mixture |
FRP | 2.8±0.1 | 2.6±0.1 |
FRP-ST mixture | Waxy corn | 1.8±0.0bc | 2.2±0.0a | 0.8±0.5ab | 2.0±0.1a |
Normal corn | 2.3±0.0a | 2.3±0.0a | 0.2±0.0c | 2.0±0.1a |
Hi-amylose corn | 2.0±0.0ab | 2.3±0.3a | 0.8±0.5ab | 2.0±0.1a |
Wheat | 1.8±0.0bc | 2.1±0.0a | 0.5±0.2bc | 2.1±0.2a |
Tapioca | 1.9±0.0b | 2.2±0.0a | 0.6±0.0b | 2.2±0.3a |
Potato | 1.7±0.0c | 2.2±0.0a | 1.3±0.1a | 2.1±0.1a |
Mean values of three replicate measurement; values sharing the same lowercase letters are not significantly different at p<0.05.