Ohmic heating is a heating method based on the principle when an electrical current passes through food. Since this method is internal, electrical current damage occurred during heating treatment. The results of ohmic heated starch’s external structure, X-ray diffraction, DSC analysis and RVA were differed from those of conventional heating at the same temperature. Several starches changed more rigid by structure re-aggregation. This change in starch was caused by change of physical, chemical, rheological property. The rheology of ohmic heated potato and corn starch of different heated methods were compared with chemically modified starch. After gelatinization, sample starch suspension (2%, 3%) measured flow curves by rheometer. Cross-linked chemically modified starch’s shear stress was decreased with degree of substitution reversibly. Ohmic heated more dramatic, at 60℃. Potato starch’s shear stress was less than commercial high cross-linked modified starch. Flow curves of potato starches measured at 4℃, 10℃, 20℃. Showed that Ohmic heated potato starch’s shear stress ranging between 4℃ and 20℃ was narrower than modified starch. According to this study, ohmic heated potato starch can be used by decreasing viscosity agent like cross-linked modified starch.

For the study of the production and availability of biopolymer from Bacillus polymyxa YU-101, its rheological properties were investigated in comparison with other polysaccharides. The intrinsic viscosity of the biopolymer was 35.18 dL/g, showing the characteristics of the polyelectrolyte. The chain stiffness of the biopolymer was 0.55, which was expected to be extremely flexible, and the coil overlap parameter and the critical concentration were 0.722 and 0.15 dL/g, respectively. The activation energy of the biopolymer calculated by intrinsic viscosity showed two linear relationships at 50oC. Biopolymer showed pseudoplastic flow characteristics with increasing shear rate. At a concentration of 0.5% (w/w), the consistency index was 660.39 mPa·S and the flow behavior index was 0.765 and 0.4 at the shear rates of 0-11.7 s-1 and 11.7-105.3 s-1, respectively, similar to guar gum. At the shear rate of 58.5 s-1, the apparent viscosity of the biopolymer with the change of pH showed an abrupt increase in the range of acidity. In addition, the apparent viscosity of the biopolymer showed the maximum value at the 0.3%(w/w) concentration of salt, increased only by sucrose in the tested sugars.