Sentences with phrase «of amylose»

The root also has relatively high levels of amylose, which can also be difficult to digest.

Grains contain an abundance of amylose sugars which could cause inflammation, as well as anti-nutrients such as lectins and phytates which bind to the intestines and can hinder nutrient absorption in the body.

With their abundance of amylose sugars that cause inflammation, anti-nutrients such as lectins and phytates that bind to the intestines and make nutrients inactive in the body, grains can cause a wide array of damage to your gut and your health.

Effects of the amylose content of breakfast and lunch on postprandial variables in male volunteers

This way a lot of amylose makes it to the large intestines where bacteria ferment it to butyrate, as mentioned by Murray.

This observation may be explained by the well - known slow digestibility of amylose and may be confirmed by data in the literature (18 — 20).

As is typical of other grains, pulse starches are composed of amylose, a linear α -1,4-linked glucan with few branches in the molecular weight range of 105 — 106, and amylopectin, a highly branched and much larger molecule (molecular weight 107 — 109) composed of α -1,4-linked glycosyl units of varying lengths connected by α - 1,6 branch points.

Pulse starches generally have a higher content of amylose compared with cereal and tuber starches; this factor plus their associated high capacity for retrogradation may reduce the starch digestion rate, rendering them either slowly digestible and / or resistant to digestion.

One variety boosts yields; another more efficiently metabolizes nitrogen; a third triples levels of amylose, a starch that doesn't spike blood sugar levels.

In addition to lactose and sugar alcohols (which are similar to carbs according to the author) I was surprised to see that the other malabsorbed carbohydrates leading to GERD are: fiber, fructose, and resistant starch containing a lot of amylose (e.g. most wheat, corn, oat, barley).