Rice, Pasta and Potato Salad: Resistant Starch Diet Foods?

[CodingQueen]

Ok, Ginny M. This is especially for you. Everyone please keep in mind that all three of these foods are not LDL approved until we here the final verdict from RT regarding baked potatoes....CQ

The following article was posted by Dr. Oz on September 1, 2010 at realage.com

"If you think filling up on leftover pasta straight from the fridge will shrink your waist, you're on top of the latest diet craze: resistant starch. This stuff is suddenly everywhere: In a headline-grabbing book (The Carb Lover's Diet), in a Japanese pounds-off plan (the Morning Banana Diet), even in the fiber advice of Australia's nutrition guidelines.

For once, though, a weight loss fad has science on its side. Resistant starch (RS for short) is a tasteless form of fiber in some high-carb foods that can help you lose weight and steady your blood sugar. Beans (a YOU Doc fave food) are RS-rich. So are nuts, seeds, and 100% whole grains (we love those, too). So are green bananas (we'll pass). And -- this is where the fad part comes in -- so are cold pasta, potatoes, and rice.

Your small intestine digests only a little RS and only very slowly (which helps you feel fuller, longer). Most of it makes a splashy exit because RS makes your poop bulky. Since you don't digest most RS, you don't get its calories.

Why eat starchy foods cold? When foods like pasta, potatoes, and rice are cooked and chilled, tight crystals of resistant starch form. Don't reheat them; you'll break up the crystals. Our take: Keep on eating healthful goodies like beans, lentils, whole grains, nuts, and seeds; all are RS sources. Enjoy reasonable portions of cold potatoes, whole-grain pasta salads and sushi rice now and then. Don't even think of gorging on green bananas -- resistant starch is hot, but they're not."

The following website goes into more detail regarding resistant starch but it's quite lengthy....CQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistant_starch

[witheraway1]

CQ, I THOUGHT THAT WAS FOOD FOR THOUGHT, VERY INTERESTING.

[LINDA RN]

Good one Wither, I will just think about it too.

[CodingQueen]

I had mentioned something about resistant starch and Ginny M. wanted some info on the subject. I promised that I'd post it even though I'm sure RT didn't approve.

CQ

[LINDA RN]

So according to that info, baked potato eaten cold is the better choice?

[chelebellehawaii]

mamma mia!  hugs* michele from hawaii

[Ginny M.]

Thanks, CQ, for the info.  Can't tell you how long it's been sinced I ate rice, pasta, or potatoes (all before LDL). 
I just thought the info. would be interesting . . . it is.


Ginny

[CodingQueen]

Ginny M,

Just as you know...I don't eat any of these....not even the "Baked Potato." I do love sweet bake potatoes and have been enjoyinged them long before this experiment.

CQ