Resistant starch is also lower in calories than other types of starches — about 2.5 calories per gram (g) compared with 4 calories per g of wheat starch, according to research. Best of all ...

Resistant starch is being explored as a healthy food for people with type-2 diabetes; eating it improved certain measures of inflammation, a condition that often precedes type-2 diabetes ...

“There are three types of naturally occurring resistant starch,” explains Stephenson ... But if you chilled either one, that figure rose to 4.3g. So, Stephenson suggests, a simple potato ...

When starch is cooked in water and then cooled it changes shape. The new structure is resistant to enzymes in our body and so can’t be digested- it’s known as ‘resistant starch’.