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Polydextrose is commonly used as a replacement for sugar, starch, and fat in commercial beverages, cakes, candies, dessert mixes, breakfast cereals, gelatins, frozen desserts, puddings, and salad dressings. Polydextrose is frequently used as an ingredient in low-carb, sugar-free, and diabetic cooking recipes.
A specially developed strain of barley, high in resistant starch. Resistant starch (RS) is starch, including its degradation products, that escapes from digestion in the small intestine of healthy individuals. [1] [2] Resistant starch occurs naturally in foods, but it can also be added as part of dried raw foods, or used as an additive in ...
A new study found that compared to an equivalent amount of white rice, people eating baked potatoes experienced a modest decrease in fasting blood glucose levels, and waist circumference.
The chemical family has had a history of changes in classification. As of 2023, a digestion-resistant maltodextrin is considered a resistant dextrin [7] and a resistant starch of type 5. [9] [10] [a] Another study contrasted resistant dextrins and resistant maltodextrins, finding them to differ chemically and functionally. [11]
Eating huge portions of even healthy snacks can quickly turn them unhealthy. Snacks between meals can help you reduce portion sizes at main meals and also keep blood sugar levels more stable ...
Seasonal and local fruits and vegetables (such as cruciferous ones, like cabbage and cauliflower, and starchy ones, like potatoes), lean proteins (fish, seafood, poultry), whole grains, legumes ...
Starches have been classified as rapidly digestible starch, slowly digestible starch and resistant starch. [25] Starches in plants are resistant to digestion (resistant starch), but cooking the starch in the presence of water can break down the starch granule and releases the glucose chains, making them more easily digestible by human digestive ...
This incredibly simple and quick roasted sweet potatoes recipe relies on the most basic of seasonings: olive oil, salt and pepper. Serve it as a holiday meal side or with your favorite main dish ...