The pasting temperatures of various starches are different; larger granules are easy to paste and can achieve paste at lower temperatures. Different varieties of starch pastes differ in many properties, such as the transparency of the paste, thermal viscosity, stability, adhesion, the nature of the gel generated after cooling, and coagulability (e.g., Table 1). All these properties affect the use of starch.

Table 1 Comparison of properties of various starches and their starch pastes