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How to use the word starch in a Sentence?

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Food is so much more than protein, starch, and vitamins and minerals, yet many people struggle to have fun with food.

Shelley Aggarwal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Unripe bananas contain one of the world’s richest sources of prebiotic resistant starch, which resists digestion as it travels through your gut and feeds the beneficial bacteria living in your large intestine. A well-nourished gut microbiota will multiply and diversity, leading to better gut health, good gut health is linked to reduced inflammation, improved immunity, enhanced nutrient absorption, a supported mood, and less digestive issues, all of which can help you look and feel younger! For those that do not like the taste and texture of unripe bananas, green banana flour contains resistant starch in a different form, and can easily be added to smoothies and overnight oats.

Kara Landau

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Resistant starch is not digested as it travels through the gastrointestinal tract, instead, it is fermented by the beneficial bacteria living in the gut. This fermentation process releases byproducts that improve the body’s insulin response, which help to prevent fat stored around the abdomen. Abdominal fat is highly correlated with diabetes, and a waist circumference larger than 35 inches in women and 40 inches in men is a risk factor for heart disease.

Kara Landau

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We knew black-eyed peas were loaded with the starch necessary to make the fermented mash that can be distilled into liquor, we just needed to prove it.

Trey Nickels

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Dry shampoos use powder, starch, or talc to soak up oil, and none of those ingredients directly impact the ability of follicles to grow new hair.

Paradi Mirmirani

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This gentleman during World War II noted that the mortality of celiac disease was zero, and he didn't realize immediately why until when the war was over and the mortality went back to the pre-war era, something during the war that was missing was the culprit, and one of the commodities that was missing was wheat. As a matter of fact, flour during the war was made with potato starch and not with wheat.

Alessio Fasano

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Something during the war that was missing was the culprit, and one of the commodities that was missing was wheat. As a matter of fact, flour during the war was made with potato starch and not with wheat.

Alessio Fasano

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Numerous trials have shown that, in people trying to lose weight, high-fat diets that focus on reducing starch, other refined grains and sugars are as effective or more effective than healthy low-fat diets in the long term, this trial should finally lay to rest our country’s long-running fear of fat, when it comes from healthy foods such as nuts and extra virgin olive oil.

Dariush Mozzafarian

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

You are eating the same amount of starch and wheat flour, so the nutritional value is the same. The key idea here is slowing down the energy release, so you use those calories over a longer period of time.

Zhou Weibiao

Found on CNN
8 years ago

A serving of protein should be approximately the size of the palm of your hand and starch should be about the size of your clenched fist.

Allie Matarasso

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Every day we have to figure out new homes for that starch capacity.

Chris Cuddy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible.

E. M. Forster

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and realizing that most of his customers wanted meals properly balanced between the four food groups: sugar, starch, grease and burnt crunchy bits.

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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