The granular morphology and size, solubility, swelling power, pasting property and other physicochemical properties of starches from yam bean were analyzed by comparing the similarities and differences with corn, cassava and potato starches. The results indicated that most of yam bean starch granules were irregular polygon, and granule sizes were smaller than the other three kinds of starches, which varied from 3 - 11μm with the average was 8 μm. The solubility and swelling power were higher than those of cassava and corn starches, but lower ...