Abstract:In this study，granular cold-water-soluble maize starch was prepared by alcoholic-alkaline treatment.Based on aforementioned preparation，granular cold-water-soluble-lipophilic maize starch was prepared through the reaction with octenyl succinic anhydride（OSA）under dry condition.Under this condition，the highest degree of substitution（DS）of product reached to 0.019 2. The transparency，freeze-thaw stability，retrogradation，viscosity and rheology properties of granular cold-water-soluble maize starch and granular coldwater-soluble lipophilic maize starches were investigated. The relations between these properties and DS were further studied.The results showed that comparing with native maize starch，these properties of granular coldwater-soluble maize starch and granular cold-water-soluble lipophilic maize starches were changed apparently，and the latter was better than the former.As the DS was getting higher，the transparency，freeze-thaw stability，viscosity of granular cold-water-soluble lipophilic maize starches enhanced. The products became weaker in retrogradation with the DS improvement. The results of rheological properties showed that the pastes of the two kinds of the starch were pseudoplastic characteristics.The apparent viscosity of the pastes decreased with the increase in shear rate.