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Ancestral Starch

Ancestral Resistant Starch

Starch has always been part of our food.  It was a major component in ancestral diets and it is still a major in today’s food. In fact, starch-based foods constitute the five largest food crops around the world: maize, wheat, rice and potatoes and bananas. Notwithstanding stories and claims by advocates of the Paleolithic and Read More …

New wheat and rice resistant starch

The story of resistant starch continues to evolve. It is exciting to see new natural food sources of RS2 resistant starch emerge. Hopefully they will have a wider variety of taste and process tolerance than previously available. Wheat The United States Department of Agriculture has been developing wheat hybrids with higher levels of resistant starch. Read More …