These recipes substitute grains with
other types of starch like potato, sweet potato, tapioca, or green peas.
Not exact matches
Different varieties
of rice contain different
types of starch, which is why jasmine rice is very high GI, while basmati and
other rices high in amylose
starch are medium.
I didn't dismiss resistant
starch, but I did downplay its importance, characterizing it as «just another
type of prebiotic» — important but not necessary so long as you were eating
other fermentable fibers.
I also won't use two
types of flours in the same recipe, as many
other gluten - free recipes do, and in this book I've avoided using any special thickeners, like arrowroot or tapioca
starch.
«Floyd Mayweather's typical meal consists
of all
types of meat so he and
others on the team have options like beef, turkey, chicken and a seafood dish paired with a
starch.
Researchers have found that it takes only 4 days
of insufficient sleep for your body's ability to process insulin (the hormone in charge
of transforming sugar,
starches and
other types of food into energy) to drastically decrease.
It is possible to replace the effects
of these
types of additives with
other, natural ingredients, such as gluten - free
starch or gelatin as a thickener or stabilizer.
Resistant
starch is a gut - friendly
type of starch that resists digestion (meaning it skips our stomach and small intestine where most
other nutrients get absorbed) and reaches our large intestine (colon) where it feeds the friendly gut bacteria.
If, however, you eat resistant
starch and
other types of fermentable fibers, the short - chain fatty acids produced by the bacteria are used as energy and trigger improvements in the same important metabolic pathways.
Beans: All
types of beans tend to be high in
starch, so you'll need to avoid lentils, chickpeas, and
other legumes.
Resistant
starch is made from amylose, a
type of sugar molecule, and is low in calories, providing 1 calorie per gram compared with 4 calories per gram for
other forms
of starch.
Corn flour and
other types of flour contain
starch, but also proteins, fats, minerals and vitamins.
Because these
starches are absorbed more slowly than
other types of foods, they trigger a sensation
of fullness.
In the first part
of the series
of posts on prebiotics I made it clear that even though only some
types of carbohydrates such as inulin, oligofructose and resistant
starch are officially labeled as prebiotics, a lot
of fermentable substrates found in vegetables, fruits and
other whole foods actually work as prebiotics since they stimulate -LSB-...]
And the key to feeding the fermentation in the large intestine is giving it lots
of plants with their various
types of fiber, including resistant
starch (found in bananas, oats, beans); soluble fiber (in onions and
other root vegetables, nuts); and insoluble fiber (in whole grains, especially bran, and avocados).»
Wild rice is incredibly high in antioxidants (which you can see by its dark black color), potassium (great for blood pressure levels), magnesium, phytochemicals, and it contains less
starch than most
other types of rice which makes it a bit easier on blood sugar levels.
I went from eating one fruit a day and one
starch a day and often no fruit or
starch and just
other types of veggies thinking I was doing myself good.
Although our primary exposures
of interest were GI and glycemic load as risk factors for depression, we also investigated
other measures
of carbohydrate consumption computed from average daily intakes
of foods and beverages reported on the WHI FFQ, including dietary added sugar, total sugars, specific
types of sugars (glucose, sucrose, lactose, fructose),
starch, and total carbohydrate.