Resistant Starches

lulalacroix

Can adding more resistant starches to your diet increase weight loss? Is it true that cooling food items such as potatoes and pasta increases the resistant starches and therefore leads to us ingesting less calories?

Or is this plain garbage?

annacole94

It might not be 100% garbage, but for an actual person in real life... it's probably 98% garbage.

TavistockToad

Try it... eat all your starches cold for 4 weeks and then eat them warm for 4 weeks and see if you lose more in the first 4...

cwolfman13

lulalacroix wrote: »

Can adding more resistant starches to your diet increase weight loss? Is it true that cooling food items such as potatoes and pasta increases the resistant starches and therefore leads to us ingesting less calories?

Or is this plain garbage?

It's not garbage, it's true...but at the same time, it's most certainly majoring in the minors...you're talking about pretty negligible differences in ingested calories.

lulalacroix

TavistockToad wrote: »

Try it... eat all your starches cold for 4 weeks and then eat them warm for 4 weeks and see if you lose more in the first 4...

You're funny. But I thought I'd ask the question as opposed to putting myself through an 8 week study.

ClubSilencio

You're probably already eating some form of RS anyway. If you want to get the gut flora benefits of resistant starch in a supplemental way you can buy Bob's Red Mill Unmodified Potato Starch and mix 1/2 tsp in water and then build up to 1 tbl.