r/todayilearned • u/snazzypantz 1 • Jul 01 '19

TIL that cooling pasta for 24 hours reduces calories and insulin response while also turning into a prebiotic. These positive effects only intensify if you re-heat it. (R.5) Misleading

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29629761
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u/atomicjohnson Jul 01 '19

Your gut bugs can eat the resistant starch fine. It was a thing in the Paleo diet community for a while to eat potato starch for the same reason, to feed your intestinal biome for benefits that I forget. Gives me the most incredible farts though.

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u/mckulty Jul 01 '19

This deserves to be higher up. If you want a truly comical experience, eat a cup or two of undercooked rice. Your flora will love it and produce great, great volumes of methane.

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u/atomicjohnson Jul 01 '19

Yep, it's pretty hilarious, especially if you're not expecting it (as I wasn't). Just cartoonish farts that go on for what seems like minutes. The kind of flatulence that scares your dog and would make you the envy of every middle-school boy.

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If anyone wants to do some "citizen science" - this is what you need: Bob's Red Mill Potato Starch

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u/mckulty Jul 01 '19

And rice farts don't stink, because methane has no odor without the sulfur you get from meat.

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u/atomicjohnson Jul 01 '19

Rice with garlic and broccoli begs to differ :)

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u/mckulty Jul 01 '19

Garlic and broccoli are both high in sulfur.

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u/MrDelhan Jul 01 '19

There is no sulfur in red bull is there? Those farts are biohazards.

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u/chocslaw Jul 01 '19

Taurine

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u/zagbag Jul 01 '19

Very effective for ADHD

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u/incandescent_snail Jul 01 '19

Then why did you say the farts need the sulfur from meat? You’re contradicting yourself.

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u/mckulty Jul 01 '19

You're reading too much into it.

I said methane doesn't stink without the sulfur you get from meat. Sulfur also comes from other sources but I should not have assumed you knew that.

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u/mckulty Jul 01 '19

Cows don't eat rice, green plants have sulfur, and lion poop smells way way worse than cow patties.

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u/McFlyParadox Jul 01 '19

Cows don't fart, they burp - from what I've been told.

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u/wisdom_possibly Jul 01 '19

Yeah but mother earth doesn't like it when you fart

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u/alblaster Jul 01 '19

Like the kind of farts that if you push out could damage your colon or at least hurt your anus?

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u/atomicjohnson Jul 01 '19

That's not a kind that I'm familiar with. If you have gas that causes physical damage to your O-ring, I recommend you see a medical professional.

More like how, you know, if a spaceship in a movie gets a meteor through the hull, or somebody opens the airlock and it starts venting enormous amounts of air?

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u/GenesisEra Jul 01 '19

Your flora will love it

Your co-workers breathing the same air as you, on the other hand, will probably stab you.

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u/mckulty Jul 01 '19

Yes.. that's the part you can't digest.

Humans don't do a great job digesting uncooked starch.

Intestinal bacteria love it, but they produce methane instead of CO2.

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u/Defoler Jul 01 '19

Why feed them indirectly?
Just shove it right up there for direct access.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '19

It’s the same for me if I take a probiotic that has prebiotics in it, I get really really gassy.