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 …
Starch is one of the most abundant foods in the world and has been a primary food component in every diet known to man and beast. As our food is processed, however, the starch in our diets became more easily digestible and contains much less resistant starch and dietary fiber. Most raw starch in plants Read More …
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 …
Once you’ve become interested in the health benefits of resistant starch (RS), you are going to want to know where to get it. Just like “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie” by Laura Numeroff. (That mouse now wants a glass of milk, if you don’t remember the popular children’s story.) I do not know Read More …
Many groups are promoting a plant-based diet to help maintain healthy blood sugar levels, also called Glycemic Health. Others have used a different approach and have stopped consuming carbohydrates as much as possible. Both approaches have been shown to be successful. Resistant starch offers a third option that may be somewhere between eating only plants Read More …