Resistant starch

Starchy foods cooked then chilled: yesterday's rice or potatoes, green banana, legumes in a salad…

Why?

Cooling “retrogrades” the starch into resistant starch, which the microbiota ferments into butyrate — the favorite fuel of colon cells.

Tip

Cook the day before for the next day; gentle reheating does not destroy the resistant starch that has formed.

Counting

It is the CHILLING that counts, not the food: rice, pasta, potatoes or legumes cooked then chilled for at least a few hours. Served hot, they do not tick this category.

The app's landmark

A serving of about 50 g, every 3 days.

Molecules

Resistant starch RS1 · Resistant starch RS2 · Resistant starch RS3

What checks it (75)

• Achira, cooked then chilled
• Acorns, cooked then chilled
• Anchote, cooked then chilled
• Apios, cooked then chilled
• Arracacha, cooked then chilled
• Arrowhead, cooked then chilled
• Arrowroot, cooked then chilled
• Bankanas (false yam), cooked then chilled
• Bitterroot, cooked then chilled
• Breadnut, cooked then chilled
• Bunya nut, cooked then chilled
• Chayotextle, cooked then chilled
• Chilled beet
• Chilled black salsify
• Chilled breadfruit
• Chilled chestnut
• Chilled grains
• Chilled green banana
• Chilled legumes
• Chilled lotus root
• Chilled plantain
• Chilled potato
• Chilled sweet potato
• Chinese artichokes, cooked then chilled
• Corn starch (amylose)
• Dogtooth violet (katakuri), cooked then chilled
• Elephant foot yam (suran), cooked then chilled
• Enset (false banana), cooked then chilled
• Ethiopian potato (Oromo dinich), cooked then chilled
• Giant taro, cooked then chilled
• Green (unripe) banana
• Green banana flour
• Green plantain
• Halopegia, cooked then chilled
• Jackfruit seeds, cooked then chilled
• Jackfruit, cooked then chilled
• Kasheruka, cooked then chilled
• Katil, cooked then chilled
• Koorka (Chinese potato), cooked then chilled
• Lerén (sweet corn root), cooked then chilled
• Lily bulb, cooked then chilled
• Livingstone potato, cooked then chilled
• Makhana (fox nut), cooked then chilled
• Malanga, cooked then chilled
• Mangarito, cooked then chilled
• Marsh woundwort, cooked then chilled
• Mashua, cooked then chilled
• Mauka (chago), cooked then chilled
• Melinjo, cooked then chilled
• Monkey puzzle nuts (pinhão), cooked then chilled
• Mukago, cooked then chilled
• Oca, cooked then chilled
• Palmyra palm sprouts, cooked then chilled
• Peach palm (pupunha), cooked then chilled
• Pises, cooked then chilled
• Potato starch
• Pulaka (swamp taro), cooked then chilled
• Sago, cooked then chilled
• Salsify, cooked then chilled
• Silverweed, cooked then chilled
• Spring beauty, cooked then chilled
• Tacca (Polynesian arrowroot), cooked then chilled
• Taro, cooked then chilled
• Timpsila (prairie turnip), cooked then chilled
• Tuberous pea, cooked then chilled
• Typhonium, cooked then chilled
• Ubayuri (giant lily bulb), cooked then chilled
• Ulluco, cooked then chilled
• Victoria water lily seeds, cooked then chilled
• Wapato (duck potato), cooked then chilled
• Water lily seeds, cooked then chilled
• Water lily tubers, cooked then chilled
• Wild bean (Vigna adenantha), cooked then chilled
• Wokas (yellow pond-lily seeds), cooked then chilled
• Yam, cooked then chilled