Typically, when you look at the carbohydrate content of milk, you will see that it is something like 10g of carbohydrates and 10g sugar, meaning that all the carbohydrates in the milk are sugar. I have, however, encountered milk...
I've been reading up on the benefits of resistant starch being good for you, as far as essentially being a prebiotic. But having a hard time finding anything on if non resistant starch also has it's benefits, or is non...
If I cook whole grain pasta (or even white) and let it sit for a few hours does it become resistant starch?
Starch is usually depicted as the evil of nutrition, 'it's bad for Candida', 'it's bad for infections caused by bacteria', etc., but almost all diets in the world are based on it. In the east lot of rice and soy...
As you know part of the digestion of starches happens in the mouth from the salivary amylase, that happens when you thouroughly chew the food. My question is if you eat staches from a well blended soup, like a soup with...
Greetings fans of not eating! I've been heavy into low carb/OMAD these past few years. I find it a very easy way to control my weight and have no real issues with it. As an experiment, I've just embarked on a simple...
If wheat, rice, potatoes, and tons of other types of carbohydrates are all made of the same compound, starch, which is (C6H10O5)n +(H2O), then why do they taste different and take different shapes and grow in different ways?
Would love to hear anyone’s experiences. Thanks in advance for the replies.
I'm looking at the nutrition label for the pomegranate juice powder from Navitas ([https://navitasorganics.com/products/pomegranate-powder](https://navitasorganics.com/products/pomegranate-powder)), it say per serving has 5 grams of total carbs, 0 g fiber, and 1 g sugar. My question is, what's the other 4 grams of...
Since potatoes are full of starch, I was wondering if blending them to a mash with an immersion blender will lead to fewer long starch chains as opposed to mashing by hand with a fork or something. Shorter sugar chains...
For arguments sake, I’m referring to frozen bags only cooked in the air fryer, so no added oil. Is there a reason why one should opt towards sweet potato fries rather than regular? Edit to elaborate: is there a difference in...
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I had an overly-ripe persimmon today and holy crap that was the sweetest piece of fruit I’ve ever eaten. This got me thinking- what exactly happens when a fruit ripens? And does a very ripe piece of fruit contain more...
I've been trying to puzzle this one out on my own, and thought I'd just ask. So, large parts of the world, especially the eastern world, eat white rice as a major staple food, probably 2-3 meals a day. The common wisdom...
Is it because they are not tasty or they dont digest correctly compared to raw carrots? Why only raw carrots basically? Or maybe they are good to eat raw?
Back in 2014 I went through a break up and did IF back before it was an accepted way of losing weight. Back then everyone said it was bad for you and was called leangains. Long story short I went...
Or will it just largely go undigested?
I think that white potatoes, corn, and other dried beans belong more in the starch category than the vegetable one. (Yeah, dried beans are more of a plant-protein, but not really what people need from fruits and veggies.)
Here is my (fairly simplified and general) understanding of sugar: * Sugar is a simple carbohydrate, as opposed to complex carbohydrates (starch and fiber). * Both types of carbs supply blood glucose, but complex carbs do it in a...
Which one is more nutritious ? (especially if one's considering losing body weight)
Do you eat potatoes regularly?
So I'm looking for no added sugar cereal but a lot of them contain barley malt extract/syrup. This is described as an unrefined sweetener but it still seems to be about 55% sugar and there is only a negligible fibre,...
I see its low in cholesterol and awfully high in protein in comparison to regular fish like salmon. So what's the catch? (No pun intended)
I know it depends on what those supplements contain. So here are the ingredients : zinc gluconate, ascorbic acid, microcrystalline cellulose, starch, talc, croscarmellose, magnesium stearate, orange flavour. (These are translated, so I hope they make sense)
Does IF and OMAD lower blood pressure?
I once read corn starch spikes blood sugar levels higher than sugar? Is it true? And so yea that got me curious which food item spikes the most Like who's on the top?
I am generally curious about this because people always tell me it’s fiber and GI. But for me white potato is much more satiating compared to oats or even beans. So what exactly makes a carb satiating?
I got curious since I realised veggies and grains have tendencies to taste really sweet when cooked for a long time. Is it possible to cook veggies long enough for them to lose all fiber content?
As hunters and gatherers weren’t fruits the only source of carbs. Since wheat and rice were only cultivated after the agricultural revolution and we hardly had those (correct me if I am wrong on this point).
Understood that fiber is important, and the research behind soluble, insoluble fiber, and resistant starch. How did the guidelines arrive at 30-35g of fiber a day for men? Any help is appreciated.
Maybe this is common knowledge, but google didn't lead me to any reliable source, so here I am. The title says it all. Bread is almost always classified as a food to avoid, but toasts are usually suggested as a part...
I'm facing a ton of sleep issues due to fasting. I have done tons of fasts and came to this conclusion. I have been on Keto for 22 months now. Keto and fasting are reasons for poor sleep in my...
This is going to be a long winded post. I hope that is OK. I am really excited and wanted to share. I just started IF Sunday exactly one week ago. I was at my mom’s house with my son...
Hi all. I'm currently counting calories and doing my usual 16:8. Leaving out breakfast and eating two meals a day (currently eating a snack right after to not mess with insulin as much and because I'd be a wreck if I...
I’m enby, 5’3, SW: 220 GW: 140 I’m currently in grad school and in a fantastic long distance relationship. My partner and I planned to see each other next year in March for the spring break. It was then I...
I'm not doing IF to lose weight. I do it because eating usually makes me tired at 11am if I eat breakfast. I hesitate to blame only carbs. There are few foods that don't make me tired: Salad. Beef. Sushi....
Like I said I have plateaued I’m only 9 pounds away from my goal weight. I’m thinking about cutting out carbs but I don’t know what the best way of doing that without doing it cold turkey style. Any other...
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Excluding the thermogenic effect of food, do we absorb all of the calories we eat as said on the package or is soke energy lost es. with feces. To my knowledge no energy is transferred with 100% efficiency so I...
I’ve seen different suggestions when it comes to this and was wondering what the best way to go was. Here’s what I’ve found and wonder if it’s a good process to follow. Day 1-4 - bone/vegetable broth, protein smoothies, fermented...
I have been trying a fasting experiment that has changed my life. (Not recommending anyone does the same just sharing my experience to encourage you to keep trying to get yourself better + sharing my experience because Fasting is AWESOME) Day...
Not sure if this is the right place to post this but I’m 22, I went and got blood work done on Friday (I forgot to fast though) and my cholesterol was 228 mg/dL and Triglycerides was 663 mg/dL. In...
i dont understand why people hate on mass gainers becuse of maltodextrin
Dear fasting redditors, please excuse my bad English. Me, 31 years old M, struggling with major depression and self-control issues, after several years of trying to fast unsuccessfully, I finally found the resolve to start a 7 day fast for...
Been enjoying cooking with miso and making it from scratch recently. I understand that the koji fungal culture on the rice creates protease and amylase enzymes which breaks down protein and starch. But I’m also reading manufacturers claiming it is...
More specifically for bodybuilding This is the product: https://dempsters.ca/products/wheat-grain-tortillas/dempsters-100-whole-wheat-large-tortillas/pack-of-10
EDIT: TL;DR- Sticking to a "one bowl" meal approach has simplified meal prep for me. Ok so this might sound really obvious but it's a new approach for me, and I've had the most enjoyable easy time cooking, and I'm...
So my mom works at a school in the cafeteria and recently brought home some scooby-doo fruit snacks. I loved these as a kid and now that I am older and know more about nutrition and how to reading food...
https://i.imgur.com/abVNVHs.jpg Why would a piece of steak have things like hydrogenated soybean oil, maltodextrin, modified food starch, and other ingredients I never would have expected to be in a piece of meat. Is any of this unusual and should be avoided,...
Hello Nutrition Reddit :) What's something about diet and nutrition you wish you knew earlier? I was overweight as a teen and did the worst things (including a tea cleanse lol). Wish I could pass advice to my old self!
I’ve done many shorter dry fasts - longest was 98 hours. Also done multiple water only fasts - longest was 21 days. I read in Filonov’s 20 Questions about combined fasts. He recommends a 4 day hard dry fast and...
I'm going for a 14-day water fast. I bought my potassium chloride and magnesium lysinate glycinate and kosher salt. I would also like to take multivitamin during the fast. I know that some vitamins are fat-soluble, so, I won't be...
On December 7, 2021 I had my annual physical. Due to the raging pandemic, I had actually skipped going in for my annual physical (and eye appointment, and dentist appointment…) in 2020. So, it was almost two years to the...
Have many woman found success loosing weight with this type of protocol? If so I'd really appreciate how much you lost over how long. Edit: 1-4 hour eating window to help ease in on when I've managed to fast longer
Hi everyone! Apologies in advance if this isn’t the right sub, i just couldn’t find a better one. I am in college and due to make a presentation on “Plants that accumulate glucids”. Slightly baffled by this one, i managed...
I’m on a diet and I decided to buy zero calorie sweetener and decided to Use a lot of it and then after consuming i decided to read the ingredients and saw that it contained maltodextrin and I searched it up...
I know, it depends! But I would really appreciate hearing personal experiences with weight loss while intermittent fasting —comparing lbs dropped while sticking to keto in your eating window vs eating carbs in your eating window.
To keep this short, I'm thinking of dry fasting as long as I'm comfortable with (ideally 9-11 days) and transitioning into an electrolyte water fast and would love for some experienced dry fasters to just correct me, add or take. Preparation: Fasting...
I know that the human body uses carbohydrates to create energy, but it can also use proteins, and therefore I don't understand if a person can live fine without carbs?
What nutrients would be missing from a diet with rice, beans, broccoli, potatoes, oats and walnuts?
Good morning, I'll try to make this brief. I started on OMAD 11/25. For some reason it has currently stopped. I track all my stuff and calories. I'm 40, 5'11" and started at 199.8 and I'm down to 195.6. i...
Hello I have this one question specifically about bananas since most other fruit don't really have this property where it's green it's not sweet but when it's brown it gets super sweet. Well they kinda do but they are gross...
I've yoyo'd with my weight a lot over my adult life, and I didn't react well to the last two and a half years of covid and life stresses and ballooned up to my largest by about 35 pounds. Woke up...
My Dad said to me that a too ripe banana have more nutritional value than a "normal" one. That's true or he just wants me to eat the old bananas?
I love milk oats shake with banana. But recently i had doubt. Does consuming raw oats healthy ?. Are raw oats are better are nutritional value or vice versa ?
Seedless grapes of the "victoria" variety and it's almost like a grape candy, it's so sweet. New Mango varieties had no fiber at all, extremely smooth and extremely sweet. What would be the impacts of a diet rich...
So I started IF about 11 days ago now. I’ve previously tried keto. I lost a lot of weight on keto, but I feel like it was too restrictive to be a long-term weight control solution. I’m mainly doing ONAD...
- If sugar turns to fat - bad (not sure why but that's almost common knowledge) - If regardless of how much cake you have you don't let yourself get fat, does sugar still affect the system in a bad way? (Leave...
I want to hear the most controversial opinions
I cannot seem to find anything definitive on what a human diet should be. Everyone has their own ideas from grain free to meat free. lately I've been experimenting with intermittent fasting and you have groups say one meal a...
Welcome to the weekly [r/Nutrition](https://www.reddit.com/r/Nutrition/) feature post for questions related to your personal diet and circumstances. Wondering if you are eating too much of something, not enough of something, or if what you regularly eat has the nutritional content you...
Googling answers say that adults should have no more than 30g of sugars a day. I'm not too sure whether that's added (I'm guessing) or included with fruits and other stuff. Meanwhile carbohydrate intake is about 300g a day but...
Hello team, I am not sure what I am doing wrong with following IF. I am a 46M, former military, in decent shape but want to lose weight. I have been following an 18/6 plan with a "cheat day" on Sunday....
Hello Everyone ! This is the first time I am posting on this subreddit, and I wanted to ask a few questions regarding IF I am 90kg in weight, and am 174cm tall. My target weight is 72kg so that I can...
Welcome to the weekly [r/Nutrition](https://www.reddit.com/r/Nutrition/) feature post for questions related to your personal diet and circumstances. Wondering if you are eating too much of something, not enough of something, or if what you regularly eat has the nutritional content you...
I’ve done IF in the past but never went full on. This time I decided no cheating, and I’m combining 16:8 with calorie counting (1300 a day or less) and 3-4 high intensity 2-4 mile walks a week. I’m Drinking water...
I've been doing 72s currently on my 3rd round SW: 267 CW: 255 Gw: 175 I had a good refeed (hot pot only meat and veggies) for the first round and lost weight but my second refeed I had Indian food (lots...
Hello all! I (25f) did intermittent fasting for about 2 years and lost roughly 55 lbs and was able to keep it off. At some point during this time I found myself thinking negative diet culture thoughts and figured it...
Hello everyone, I'm a 33/m 290 lbs. didn't hear about intermittent fasting until last week and after reading the questions, seeing y'all transform yourselves is amazing. I'm ready to try this out and take control of my life and...
I can't seem to find any reliable source for these ingredients. I'm searching mainly on government nutritional database such as USDA Food Data Central, but with no luck.
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I have this problem where when it is a weekend and I am at home all day, I tend to snack a bit on things, then it slowly turns into more and more until I say forget it and then...
I've got a very rigid commitment that I have to attend, consisting of a dinner at a Japanese restaurant, whose cuisine is not exactly known for being low salt or low carb And as I have read on several posts about...
I can understand processed meat but normal steak and stuff, like why is it bad? It seems strange to me because to me it feels like that is what our bodies should be used to after being hunters for several...
Is it bad to eat sugary foods, like chocolate or cake, once a week?
Pasta is said to be unhealthy but the nutrition facts really are not that bad at all. Whole grain pasta for example has a lot of fiber and nutrients and no sodium or fat and it even has less carbs...
#Share your daily fast story thread! 📃 ⏳ **Length** of fast (*start/end/total*) ❓ **Why are you fasting?** (ex: *weight loss, other health benefits, spiritual/religious reasons*) 📝 **Notes** (*How is it going so far? Any concerns? Insights to share?*)...
Since we won't require oil, the downside will be we won't get fat soluble vitamins. So can we apply oil to veggies before or after cooking to yield the benefits? Edit - By healthiest I mean, nutrient and vitamin retention and...
I bought a bag of organic, sprouted oats from Costco. What effect does the sprouting have on the nutritional quality of the oats? I just wonder if this is a product I should continue to seek out or if I...
The only things I can think of are dark chocolate and honey.
I am a regular consumer of oatmeal and after a lot of experimentation and misses, finally learned the correct way to make it edible. Last year, switched from quick to rolled variety and hope to upgrade to the steel cut variety...
Will your cognitive function be affected? How much sugar is too much sugar?
I get so frustrated when I want to have a chicken sandwich and fries at Chick-Fil-A for lunch and it’s well over 900 calories. I’m trying to stay at or under 1,500 a day and that one meal just ruins...
Are there any 'must haves', you recommend to eat daily, to ensure you're getting your micronutrients as expected? Outside of taking a vitamin pill, are there some food recommendations to stay above the 'minimum daily requirements'?
Hi all, I'm an anthropologist looking at how people eat well (and what that means to them!). I'm also an avid follower of r/nutrition and curious for my own and my family's health. Was wondering what you'd suggest as a healthy,...
So on May 19th I decided to start a dry fast for the weekend that actually lasted for 4 days ending on the 23rd, resulting in me losing nearly 10 pounds. I then started to eat and drink lightly over the...
Which beans generally are healthier. The whole black beans or refried beans? Is Chipotle generally healthier than say Taco Bell in terms of vegetarian protein with black/pinto beans vs refried beans?
I've recently weighed myself and was Disturbed with the amount that I weighed. Most of my life I've been overweight but I have reached an old time high of 315 lb. I definitely need to get on the road of...