Once there, it acts as a prebiotic, nourishing beneficial gut bacteria and enhancing gut health. In addition, links have been drawn between resistant starch and other positive health impacts like ...

Those benefits—getting digested slower, being converted into fatty acids and sustaining colonies of gut bacteria—set resistant starch apart. Resistant starch is being explored as a healthy ...

Resistant starch passes through the body without being digested until it reaches the colon where it acts like fibre and feeds our ‘good bacteria’. When regular starch becomes resistant starch ...

Researchers from the University of Tasmania have provided new insights into auxin, a master plant hormone, and its vital role in starch production—the powerhouse of the world's most important crops.