Certain manmade starches are also used as dietary supplements and as ingredients in commercial food production. For example, maltodextrin is a starch product used to improve the taste and texture ...

How you eat your resistant starch foods matters. That's because heat can affect the structure of starch molecules. For example, “when you cook a potato, heat opens up the starch granule and ...

Cooking alters the plant foods with these structures increasing digestibility and safety. For example, some starchy uncooked foods like potatoes, beans, and eggplant contain harmful compounds that ...

A groundbreaking study led by Bar-Ilan University reveals that starch-rich plants played a central role in the diet of ...

Wear and tear on plastic products releases small to nearly invisible plastic particles, which could impact people's health when consumed or inhaled. To make these particles biodegradable, researchers ...