What’s more, cooling and refrigerating certain foods like rice, potatoes and pasta boosts their resistant starch.

A resistant-starch supplement has been linked to weight loss in a new study. Resistant starch is a hard-to-digest fiber thought to boost gut health. It occurs naturally in certain foods too, such as ...

Cooked food should be cooled quickly, refrigerated promptly, and not left warm. Rice deserves extra care because of food safety risks if it cools slowly. For people sensitive to histamine or leftover ...

Are you getting enough resistant starch? Have you even heard of it? If you haven’t, you are certainly not alone. This particular type of fibre is now understood to be one of the best for gut health, ...

Not all carbs are created equal — and thank goodness for that. New research suggests that a certain kind of carbohydrate called resistant starch may improve health by keeping you full, checking blood ...

Cornstarch, also called maize starch or corn flour in the U.S., is the starch found in corn grains. It is a fine, white powder made from the endosperm or the starchy part of corn kernels. It's created ...

Japan has developed a new kind of shopping bag that looks ordinary but behaves very differently from plastic. These bags are ...

For Percival Zhang, growing up in China meant learning to appreciate just how critical a stable food supply is to avoiding social unrest and disasters like famine. When he became an associate ...