Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Resistant starch is naturally occurring in foods like ...

Have you had your resistant starch today? Nutrition experts say that resistant starch is one of the best things for your gut microbiome, the community of trillions of microbes that live in your ...

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This video is part of “Innovations In: Type 1 Diabetes,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Tom Lum: On the surface, this may look like ...

The Pentagon is moving forward on orders from President Donald Trump to build a National Guard quick reaction force in each state for domestic use, though two US officials say the effort is largely ...

These chips aren’t just a healthier alternative, they’re a breakthrough in snack physics. By mastering airflow, moisture evaporation, and natural starch reactions, this recipe delivers perfectly crisp ...

Pasta, white rice, and potatoes aren’t foods you see too often these days on the “eat more” list. That’s mainly because they’re high in the type of carbs that can raise blood glucose (sugar) levels.

High-starch algae are important in biofuel production, as a feed supplement in agriculture and as an efficient way to bind carbon dioxide. Researchers have now found a new method to control starch ...

Wear and tear on plastic products releases small to nearly invisible plastic particles, which could impact people’s health when consumed or inhaled. To make these particles biodegradable, researchers ...

Eating starch can lead to cavities—just like sugar does—among people with too many copies of a certain gene. This is the conclusion of researchers from Cornell University in New York who studied how ...