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Carbs aren't known as a traditionally healthy food, but they transform when chilled.Cooling pasta, potatoes, and rice changes their structure and turns them into resistant starches.This makes them harder to digest and healthier for your gut.. Loading Something is loading...
Leena Hilakivi-Clarke, a professor of food science and nutrition at the University of Minnesota, says that foods like pasta, rice, quinoa, and potatoes are sources of a special type of dietary fiber called microbiota-accessible carbohydrates, also known as MACs...
But you can transform pasta, potatoes, quinoa, and rice into gut-healthy foods just by leaving them in the fridge..
Cooling these carbs in the fridge turns them into "resistant starches," a special type of dietary fiber with key health benefits...
Resistant starches are a type of MAC. resistant starches is they are a type of MAC those natural prebiotics that Hilakivi-Clarke said can boost gut health...
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