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  2. Table of food nutrients - Wikipedia

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    Included for each food is its weight in grams, its calories, and (also in grams,) the amount of protein, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, fat, and saturated fat. [1] As foods vary by brands and stores, the figures should only be considered estimates, with more exact figures often included on product labels.

  3. Starch - Wikipedia

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    Before processed foods, people consumed large amounts of uncooked and unprocessed starch-containing plants, which contained high amounts of resistant starch. Microbes within the large intestine ferment or consume the starch, producing short-chain fatty acids , which are used as energy, and support the maintenance and growth of the microbes.

  4. Lists of foods - Wikipedia

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    Various foods. This is a categorically organized list of foods. Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body. [1] It is produced either by plants, animals, or fungi, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals.

  5. Resistant starch - Wikipedia

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    Whole grain wheat may contain as high as 14% resistant starch, while milled wheat flour may contain only 2%. [46] Resistant starch content of cooked rice was found to decrease due to grinding; resistant starch content of oats dropped from 16 to 3% during cooking. [20] Other types of processing increase resistant starch content.

  6. List of macronutrients - Wikipedia

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    Fat has a food energy content of 38 kilojoules per gram (9 kilocalories per gram) proteins and carbohydrates 17 kJ/g (4 kcal/g). [2] Water makes up a large proportion of the total mass ingested as part of a normal diet but it does not provide any nutritional value.

  7. Phosphated distarch phosphate - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, the European Food Safety Authority approved a health claim that all types of resistant starch, including modified resistant starch, can reduce the post-prandial glycemic response in foods when the high carbohydrate baked food contains at least 14% of total starch as resistant starch. [4] In 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

  8. Root vegetable - Wikipedia

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    Starchy root vegetables are of particular economic importance as staple foods, especially in tropical regions. They overshadow cereals throughout much of Central and West Africa , as well as Oceania , in these areas being used directly or mashed to make foods such as fufu or poi .

  9. Polysaccharide - Wikipedia

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    Most plants that synthesize and store inulin do not store other forms of carbohydrates such as starch. In the United States in 2018, the Food and Drug Administration approved inulin as a dietary fiber ingredient used to improve the nutritional value of manufactured food products. [28]