The so-called starchy food mainly refers to foods rich in carbohydrates and root vegetables.

Foods rich in carbohydrates include rice, wheat and corn, and root vegetables include potatoes and yam. In addition, fruits with more starch, such as beans and bananas, are also included in starchy foods.

Common starchy foods are:

1. Cereals and noodles: rice, rice flour, bean jelly, glutinous rice balls, rice cakes, cereals, bread, steamed bread, dumpling skin, wonton skin, noodles, pancakes, steamed dumplings, corn, cakes, biscuits, spicy cakes, sliced chicken cakes, radish cakes and taro cakes.

2. Rhizome foods: potatoes, taro, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, lotus roots, etc.

3, beans: peas, mung beans, red beans and so on. ;

4. Fruits with high starch content: bananas, plantains, dates, peaches, etc.

5, high-calorie fruits: melons, durian, lychee, longan and so on.

Extended data

Starch mainly contains three elements: carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. If starch is eaten in the stomach, it will become glucose, enter the blood, combine with inhaled oxygen, and generate heat for human muscle movement and other organ activities to ensure normal life.

Starch food can also prevent intestinal cancer. Dr. Su Deng, a professor at the University of Maryland in the United States, found that rice, flour, soybeans and other leguminous plants contain a compound called IP6, which is a natural compound that can inhibit the growth of cancer cells and shrink tumors.

Animal experiments have proved that IP6 can fight against colon cancer, liver cancer, breast cancer and other tumors. Professor Bingham, a nutritionist at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, analyzed the relationship between dietary habits and cancer incidence in 12 countries, and found that the higher the starchy food intake of a group, the lower the incidence of intestinal cancer, whether from a certain country or a certain region.

Starchy foods mainly prevent intestinal cancer in two ways. First, after starch enters the intestine, intestinal bacteria will devour starch and multiply in large quantities, which will help to increase the volume and weight of feces, promote the excretion of colon contents and accelerate the excretion of carcinogenic metabolites through the large intestine.

Secondly, after starch is acted by fermenting enzymes in colon, it will produce a large number of butyrate, which can directly inhibit the production of any cells that may cause cancer in the inner wall of large intestine. Because starchy foods have the same anti-cancer effect as vegetables and fruits, relevant experts suggest that besides rice and pasta, you should also eat more corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, bananas and various beans.

Weight loss and slimming resistant starch itself contains very low calories. More importantly, it does not digest or absorb, does not increase calories to the human body, but can fill the stomach, and the satiety effect is lasting, so it can receive the effect of dieting and slimming, so it is especially suitable for fat men and women.

Regulating glucose-tolerant starch cannot be decomposed into glucose in the small intestine, so it will not increase the blood sugar concentration in the body and has little effect on insulin secretion. It is suitable for patients with unstable blood sugar or hyperglycemia.

Prevention of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases Foreign researchers tried to feed 40% resistant starch to mice. After a few weeks, the elevated cholesterol and triglycerides of these experimental mice decreased to normal levels. This shows that resistant starch can regulate blood lipid and prevent arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

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