Abstract:This study was aimed to investigate the effects of different homogenization pressure (0~120 MPa) on the functional and physicochemical properties of 4% rice protein. The results showed that with the increase of pressure, the solubility of rice protein significantly increased (P<0.01), and reached the maximum at 120 MPa, which was 82.09 μg/mL; emulsifying activity index first increased and then decreased, and reached the maximum at 80 MPa, which was 14.82 m2/g; and the emulsifying stability index decreased. Under the treatment of pressure, particle size of rice protein decreased, with the changes of ionic bond insignificant (P>0.05), hydrogen bond, and hydrophobic interaction and the contents of sulfhydryl and disulfide bond insignificantly changed (P<0.05), and suggested the three dimensionalstructure of rice protein was affected by high pressure homogenization.