The so-called starchy foods, mainly refers to carbohydrate rich foods, as well as root vegetables. Carbohydrate rich foods include rice, corn, wheat, root vegetables including potatoes, yam, potato etc.. In addition, a variety of beans and bananas and other starch containing more fruits are also included in starchy foods.
The common starch food are: Cereals, pasta (Steamed Rice, oatmeal, bread, noodles, cakes, biscuits..), rhizome (potato, taro, sweet potato, pumpkin, lotus...), beans, peas, mung bean, red bean...) high starch content of fruits (bananas, plantains, apple jujube, peach...) high calorie fruit: melon fruit, durian, litchi and longan...
Related benefits: eat starchy foods can inhibit colon cancer. The researchers pointed out that the inhibition of CRC starchy foods mainly through two ways: one is when the starch into the intestine, by a series of reactions contribute to the increase of manure promoted colonic excretion, accelerate the carcinogenic metabolites excreted in the intestine is: two starch by fermentation enzymes, will produce large amounts of butyrate. Experimental results show that butyrate is an effective inhibitor of cancer cell growth, it can directly inhibit the propagation of six intestinal bacteria, to prevent the formation of large intestine wall may cause cancer cells.
In life how to choose the starchy foods? Besides of Flapjack, Steamed Rice and other staples, made with buckwheat noodles, jelly, Steamed Jiaozi are also a good choice. In addition, for busy office workers, the rough processing of the supermarket without removing the valley of the whole grain food, such as cereal bread should be the first choice. Pay attention to these when you buy cereal bread: if the first ingredient list is that the content of cereal grains, it is rich; if the cereal in the back row of other ingredients or components of sugar, the food grain composition is small.