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What are starches? |
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Just a different word for carbohydrates, the stuff you find in bread and potatoes and pasta, which your body converts to glucose for energy.
The words 'carbs' and 'carbohydrates' are very popular now, so everybody knows what they are. But until a few years ago they were seen as very scientific terms, and the layman's term was starch. You will therefore find it a lot in older books and texts.
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starch can be used in making foods, yeah it is basically a carbohydrates and has the 3 elements Carbon Hydrogen Oxygen.
a.k.a hydrate of carbon.
it is also an organic compound.
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Foods are made up of mainly three major ingredients -- fats, proteins and carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are sort of like the family name for fiber, starches and sugars -- each one of these has its own unique characteristic. Sugars are simple in structure and can get into the blood stream quickly. Starches are more complex and the body has to break them down before they get into the blood stream. Fiber is even more complex and some of them cannot be broken down by the body.
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