When you cool cooked pasta, potatoes or rice, the process turns some of the food’s starches into resistant ones. In 2013, American research concluded that a baked potato contained 3.6 grams of ...
wp:paragraph --> But that’s not the case with resistant starches, so named because they resist digestion. These kinds of carbs bypass the small intestine (where most food is digested ...
Resistant starch expert Dr Fred Warren, research leader at the Quadram Institute in Norwich, says: ‘When you let starchy foods – whether bread, rice or pasta – cool down before eating them ...