Sentences with phrase «other carbohydrate digesting»

Combined with other carbohydrate digesting enzymes it can help enhance the overall digestion of starch, carbohydrates, and sugar.

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But the researchers think the cowlike microbes may have a functional role, digesting the carbohydrates in whales» diets, including a complex starch called chitin that makes up the shells and other body parts of crustaceans.

And cats may lack other components of the ability to enjoy (and digest) sugars, such as glucokinase in their livers — a key enzyme that controls the metabolism of carbohydrates and prevents glucose from flooding the animal.

Sugar and simple carbohydrates, on the other hand, lack fiber and are quickly digested, causing a rapid spike in blood sugar levels.

As we already know, starch is a complex carbohydrate in the form of many small molecules that are attached to each other in large chains, which get broken down into smaller ones once they are digested for the purpose of meeting the energy needs of all cells in our bodies.

Fiber and other complex carbohydrates like resistant starch (think bananas, plantains, beans and sweet potatoes) aren't absorbed or digested in your gut.

All plants contain fiber, but seaweed also has other odd types of carbohydrates that we lack the digestive enzymes to digest.

It takes more energy to digest than other nutrients, supports the maintenance and protection of your lean body mass, and is a good replacement for carbohydrates as it is not a large stimulator of insulin which you need to control when dieting.

Complex carbohydrates (foods like potatoes, grains, legumes) contain fiber, as well as other nutrients your body needs and digest slowly, providing you with lasting energy.

Unlike other food components such as fats, proteins or carbohydrates — which your body breaks down and absorbs — fiber isn't digested by your body.

If you don't do well with oatmeal, aim for other slower digesting carbohydrates sources such as white or sweet potatoes or a small amount of fruit.

Enzymes in raw foods are thought to work synergistically with the body's endogenous digestive enzymes to more completely digest food carbohydrates and other macronutrients.

Broad - spectrum enzyme products help digest all food groups including proteins, fats, starches and other carbohydrates, sugars, celluloses, and fiber.

Sugar and simple carbohydrates, on the other hand, are quickly digested and cause a rapid spike in blood sugar levels — the exact spike we want to avoid.

Since your body uses up to 15 times the energy to digest protein as it does to digest fat and up to five times the energy to digest carbohydrates, a calorie - for - calorie substitution of the first for the other two creates an energy deficit.

On the other hand, complex carbohydrates are those that are found in raw food, unprocessed food, and they take more time to be digested.

Because protein has a higher rate of thermogenesis than both carbohydrates or fat, your body uses up more calories trying to digest protein than other foods.

Unlike other beans, soybean carbohydrate contains very little starch (which humans can digest)-- less than 1 percent.10, 11

Fiber is a type of carbohydrate that's digested in a different way to other forms of carbohydrates.

Carbohydrates, on the other hand, are digested very quickly, causing a spike in blood sugar levels and leaving you hungry (even though I just ate that huge bowl of pasta!

That's because Aspergillus and other micro-organisms used in fermentation of soy miso can help metabolize proteins, carbohydrates, and fats found in soybeans and transform them into smaller molecules that may be more easily digested.

Some other foods, such as beans, contain fiber, a form of carbohydrate, which no one is able to digest.

[25] Bodybuilders seek out low - glycemic polysaccharides and other slowly digesting carbohydrates, which release energy in a more stable fashion than high - glycemic sugars and starches.

We also have a completely grain - free food that really helps those ferrets who have trouble digesting some of the carbohydrates that you find in other brands.

In fact, one of the first parts of prey that wolves and other wild canids often eat before peripheral muscle are portions of the intestinal tract, which (since their prey are usually herbivores) tend to be full of partially digested carbohydrates.

Whole grain oatmeal: These aren't unhealthy grains, but in conjunction with other grains such as rice, your dog may struggle to digest it all and offer your dog too many carbohydrates.

The inclusion of carbohydrates in cat food has become a very «hot topic» in feline nutrition — while corn and other carbohydrate sources, blueberries, kelp and cranberries may contain many beneficial nutrients, cats likely do not appreciate the flavor, and in some cases it is not certain how well they digest these ingredients.

The other important ingredient it contains is brown rice which is a carbohydrate that is easy to digest.

Short digestive tracts are not as good, on the other hand, for digesting complex carbohydrates which require longer digestion time and greater intestinal length.

Some may include «novel» proteins and carbohydrates, while others are «hypoallergenic» and very easy to digest.

In most cases, complex carbohydrates are better because they tend to include other nutrients, such as fiber, and take more time to digest, helping an animal feel full longer and preventing premature hunger and overeating.