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Eat Potatoes Without Weight Gain By Using This One Technique
Yes, you heard right — and there is research to back it up
Controlling your dietary glucose is essential, especially for those more susceptible to diabetes.
Just think of how wonderful it would be to eat potatoes, knowing that you wouldn’t get any blood sugar surges or put you at risk of gaining weight.
I believe we’d all love to eat white potatoes regularly. They are pretty delicious when you prepare them the right way.
What If I told you that researchers had tested a technique that helps make our bodies digest potato starch more slowly.
This team of brilliant potato lovers discovered two critical enzymes in our small intestine that help us slowly release glucose from potatoes.
Researchers realised that this process’s success was due to pectin, creating a structure that acts as a barrier between starch granules and digestive enzymes.
That protective layer is porous, so this processing method allows the size of the pores to be controlled to moderate how quickly a-amylase can penetrate…