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Resistant Starch: Metabolic Effects (In Mice)

Resistant starch is a name given to a group of foodstuffs that are classified as dietary fibre but are known to be fermentable in the gut. While previously it was thought that dietary fibres were not digested and absorbed in … Continue reading

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Resistant starch, also known as dietary fibre, represents the fraction of carbohydrate intake that contains glycosidic bond types that result in incomplete hydrolysis by human digestive enzymes. Such carbohydrate was once considered to be important to health solely because it … Continue reading

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Resistant starch may be beneficial to health because colonic fermentation by microflora produces short chain fatty acid (SCFA) that cause beneficial physiological changes. These include a decrease in gut pH that inhibits the growth of pathogens, increased electrolyte absorption, increases … Continue reading

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Resistant Starch

Resistant starch is the fraction of starch not digested enzymatically in the small intestine. Resistant starch is considered a form of dietary fibre bacause it passes to the colon where bacterial degradation causes its conversion to short-chain fatty acids (SCFA). … Continue reading

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