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Hey, you're on air with Ella. It's, it's Ella. And today is a good,

bad and yummy episode. I'm going in reverse order. Normally, I share one thing I'm loving,

one thing I'm not, and then a super simple recipe or a food tip or something. We're going

backwards today. We are starting with the yummy because I want you to know

a little something about resistant starch. Hold on. I have to take my aligners out. What was I thinking?

Okay, I'm back and maybe not with elispis this time. Okay. Listen, let's start with our yummy.

This is not a recipe per se, but a tip for starchy carbs and making them

healthier and more functional in your body by creating resistant starch, by promoting

resistant starch in your starchy carbs. Starchy carbs are not bad. I demonize them for years,

just FYI. I did not like touch a potato and I would only

eat half a banana, which is just madness. Okay. Starchy carbs are a part of a healthy diet,

but when you can increase their resistant starch load, that's a good thing. What is resistant starch? It's naturally occurring. It's a

type of carbohydrate that resists digestion in the small intestine. Therefore, it passes through to the

large intestine where it is fermented by gut bacteria. And unlike regular starch, which is broken down

into glucose for energy right away, resistant starch

behaves similarly to dietary fiber. So it has some of the similar benefits to dietary fiber.

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