Counting Starch
bevie19
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I learned that a carbohydrate is composed of three things: sugar, starch, and fiber. MFP counts the sugar and fiber (but does not break it down to soluble and insoluble) but not the starch. Hey MFP, can we include starch to be counted as well? Thanks!
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This is a message board and unfortunately, not generally monitored for things like this.
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At some point, information turns into noise. In my opinion, it's around there.8
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Tracking anything that isn't on nutritional labels is going to be tricky. Why? Because most database entries were created by users and the users are using nutritional labels to create them. How can starch be included in an entry if an individual has no idea how much is in an item?11
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How would you measure the starch content of potatoes? I guess it changes quite a bit with how bigger they grow, maybe bananas as well as they ripen. I don't think this is even half feasible. What reason do you see for tracking starch?1
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Maybe you don't realise that the entries in the database are made by other users. So even if MFP adds a starch category, how would you or other people know the starch content of foods so that you can enter it in the database?1
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I learned that a carbohydrate is composed of three things: sugar, starch, and fiber. MFP counts the sugar and fiber (but does not break it down to soluble and insoluble) but not the starch. Hey MFP, can we include starch to be counted as well? Thanks!
What benefit do you see in tracking starch?1 -
I learned that a carbohydrate is composed of three things: sugar, starch, and fiber. MFP counts the sugar and fiber (but does not break it down to soluble and insoluble) but not the starch. Hey MFP, can we include starch to be counted as well? Thanks!
I mainly come here to count calories. Rarely look at those other things at all.1 -
Why do you want to track starch?2
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Think of carbs - because according to the RD I saw, all those starchy foods will turn to sugar in your body. In fact she told me that I didn't need to track sugar when I was tracking my carbs. IMO, you can make yourself crazy tracking everything. I don't know of any nutritional labels that lists starch, although sometimes it will list soluble and insoluble fiber, but it is not that common.5
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I learned that a carbohydrate is composed of three things: sugar, starch, and fiber. MFP counts the sugar and fiber (but does not break it down to soluble and insoluble) but not the starch. Hey MFP, can we include starch to be counted as well? Thanks!
If you have some reason for tracking starch, couldn't you just subtract the sugar and fiber from the carb column and what is left over is starch?
I'm not sure that's really accurate but might get you somewhere close.1 -
I learned that a carbohydrate is composed of three things: sugar, starch, and fiber. MFP counts the sugar and fiber (but does not break it down to soluble and insoluble) but not the starch. Hey MFP, can we include starch to be counted as well? Thanks!
If you have some reason for tracking starch, couldn't you just subtract the sugar and fiber from the carb column and what is left over is starch?
I'm not sure that's really accurate but might get you somewhere close.
Yep, that's how you get it. Carbs-fiber-sugar=starch1 -
What would counting starch specically benefit? Is there some medical concern where just knowing the total carb, sugar and fiber content is not enough?
As others have pointed out it is not on nutrition labels but you could figure it out if you had to.0 -
Thanks all. Yes, Carbs= Sugar + Fiber + Starch. And subtracting the sugar and fiber from the Carb equals the remaining the starch. My understanding (what I've learned at Kaiser's Healthy Balance class) is that starch increases your body temperature and if not utilized for that purpose, it is then stored as fat. I was curious as to why if 2 of the components of a carbohydrate is shown on a food label why the third one wasn't.7
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That’s um, that’s not how weight loss works. Just eat fewer calories than you burn and you’ll be fine.2
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Thanks all. Yes, Carbs= Sugar + Fiber + Starch. And subtracting the sugar and fiber from the Carb equals the remaining the starch. My understanding (what I've learned at Kaiser's Healthy Balance class) is that starch increases your body temperature and if not utilized for that purpose, it is then stored as fat. I was curious as to why if 2 of the components of a carbohydrate is shown on a food label why the third one wasn't.
Kaiser should be ashamed for teaching that kind of nonsense. There is no net fat storage when you are in an overall caloric deficit, regardless of the macro composition of your diet. Nor do I know of any evidence that starch increases your body temperature.4
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