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| 523.1 | starches contain carbohydrates | ATSE::BLOCK | Looking for Galt's Gulch... | Thu Oct 26 1989 17:55 | 13 |
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All starches contain significant amounts of carbohydrate.
Carbohydrates are one of the 3 nutritional elements which make
up all food -- carbohydrate, protein, and fat (the rest is water
or fiber [bulk], which pass through your system). The simplest
carbohydrate is sugar; foods such as pasta, rice, and corn are
made up of complex carbohydrates. Unlike sugar, they take time
for your body to break down, so you don't get the rush of blood
sugar that a candy bar gives you.
Beverly
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| 523.2 | What about BREAD? | JANIS2::PITTER | | Fri Oct 27 1989 08:49 | 7 |
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Ok, that makes sense. Where does bread fit in? Is bread considered
a starchy food?
Angela
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| 523.3 | I don't know if starch is a well-defined term | ATSE::BLOCK | Looking for Galt's Gulch... | Fri Oct 27 1989 17:07 | 7 |
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Yup, bread is a starch. Wheat flour is something like 30% protein,
70% carbohydrate, if I recall correctly (which I may very well not).
Beverly
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| 523.4 | | MILKWY::ZARLENGA | I've lost the will to compromise | Sun Oct 29 1989 20:15 | 13 |
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.0> The question is, are all carbohydrates, starches or are all starches
.0> carbohydrates????
All starches are carbohydrates.
All carbohydrates are not starches.
Starches are complex carbohydrates which can be chemically
represented as [C6-H10-O5]n.
-mike z
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| 523.5 | beans and peas are starchy too | MILKWY::ZARLENGA | upside down, it's all the same | Mon Oct 30 1989 09:46 | 31 |
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"All carbohydrates are made up of monosaccharides, the
molecules that combine to form the various sugars in the
diet. These include glucose, fructose, and galactose.
The 3 most common dietary sugars are called disaccharides,
pairs of monosaccharides joined together. These are sucrose
(glucose & fructose), lactose (glucose & galactose), and
maltose (glucose & glucose).
They are all broken down in the intestine to their mono-
saccharide units which are absorbed there with the other
dietary monosaccharides and used by the body as a source
of energy.
The complex carbohydrates in the diet are formed by many
dozens of glucose molecules. A single starch molecule
may contain hundreds of glucose molecules. A million or
more of these molecules are packed together in starchy
foods such as grains and potatoes. Beans and peas are
another good source of starch.
The enzymes in your mouth and intestines break down the
starch molecules to single glucose molecules which are
absorbed across the wall of the intestines. It takes 1
to 4 hours after a meal for all the starch to be digested
and passed into the bloodstream as glucose."
Columbia Encyclopedia of Nutrition, p86
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| 523.6 | All carbohydrates please stand up!! | JANIS2::PITTER | | Tue Oct 31 1989 13:13 | 7 |
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re .4
HMMM.... OK, besides plain ol' sugar, maybe fruits, which foods
are only carbohydrates(without starches).
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