The rheological behavior of native and high-pressure homogenized waxy maize starch pastes

► Waxy maize starch (WMS) pastes display shear thickening behavior in shear tests. ► Structural change which causes shear thickening is irreversible upon equilibration. ► The shapes of Lissajous curves from strain sweeps are analyzed in this study. ► High-pressure homogenization (HPH) makes WMS pastes behave like Newtonian fluids. ► HPH significantly reduces apparent viscosity of the WMS pastes in this study.