What’s more, cooling and refrigerating certain foods like rice, potatoes and pasta boosts their resistant starch.

A resistant-starch supplement has been linked to weight loss in a new study. Resistant starch is a hard-to-digest fiber thought to boost gut health. It occurs naturally in certain foods too, such as ...

Cooked food should be cooled quickly, refrigerated promptly, and not left warm. Rice deserves extra care because of food safety risks if it cools slowly. For people sensitive to histamine or leftover ...

Japan has developed a new kind of shopping bag that looks ordinary but behaves very differently from plastic. These bags are ...

Not all carbs are created equal — and thank goodness for that. New research suggests that a certain kind of carbohydrate called resistant starch may improve health by keeping you full, checking blood ...

Resistant starch appeared to have a protective effect against non-colorectal Lynch syndrome-related cancers, according to long-term follow-up of the randomized CAPP2 trial. After up to 20 years of ...

Cornstarch, also called maize starch or corn flour in the U.S., is the starch found in corn grains. It is a fine, white powder made from the endosperm or the starchy part of corn kernels. It's created ...

Starch is the main form in which plants store carbohydrate, and is of importance in the carbon economy of many organs, tissues and cell types in the plant. It is simple to discover whether or not ...

Potato starch is a versatile ingredient made by crushing potatoes to extract the starch. When you’re using potato starch, you’re using the dried and ground potatoes in the form of a fine powder.