“…A large number of techniques, such as differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) (Donovan, Lorenz & Kulp, 1983;Lim, Chang & Chung, 2001;Ziegler, Nordmark & Woodling, 2003;Kiseleva, Tester, Wasserman, Krivandin, Popov & Yurvev, 2003) and X-ray diffraction (Kiseleva et al, 2003;Lim et al, 2001) have been used to study the gelatinization behavior of starch granule altered by various physical treatments. During recent years differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) has evolved as the preferred method (Eliasson & Larsson, 1993;Takaya, Sano & Nishinari, 2000), to hal-00413504, version measure different aspects of the gelatinization process.…”