The invention discloses a method for preparing low-
viscosity amphoteric starch by using dilutedly cooked 
starch, which comprises the following steps: adding water into the dilutedly cooked 
starch to carry out paste mixing, adding alkali liquor, ceaselessly feeding 3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyltrimethyl 
ammonium chloride to carry out a cationic etherifying reaction, and reacting for 8.0-24.0 hours; and ceaselessly feeding alkenyl 
succinic anhydride to carry out esterification, reacting for 8.0-20.0 hours, and carrying out hydrochloric solution 
neutralization, fluid exhaustion, washing, 
dehydration, pneumatic 
drying, cooling, and packaging on the obtained product, so that low-
viscosity amphoteric starch is obtained. According to the invention, multifunctional 
amphoteric starch series products which are different in fluidity, 
viscosity, surface activity, and quantitative proportions of anionic and cationic 
electric charge characteristics can be prepared by selecting dilutedly cooked 
starch such as acid-
modified starch, oxidized starch, and the like which are different in fluidity and viscosity and insoluble in cold water as raw materials, therefore, the method is wide in application scope, good in effect, and applicable to the industrial applications of non-foods such as pesticides, daily chemical thickening agents, emulsifiers, or microcapsule embedding materials, and the like.