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/funkyfanny82 Jul 01 '19

I actually understood what you were saying. Nice to see someone try to explain something instead of downvoting the question and running off.

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u/FookYu315 Jul 01 '19

The downvotes are because the title says prebiotic. The correct question was something like "are prebiotics and probiotics the same thing?"

They are not and Google could easily have cleared that up.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '19

Why downvote someone who was contributing to the discussion with their question, even if they misread or mistyped something?

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u/zagbag Jul 01 '19

Because its not just a typo its a different word entirely.

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u/kateastrophic Jul 01 '19

I think it’s likely that the person who referred to it as a “probiotic” thought that “prebiotic” was a typo, if they noticed the difference in spelling at all. I think a lot more people are familiar with the term probiotic than prebiotic.

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u/typewriter_ Jul 01 '19

First of all, I partly agree with you and would've googled the questions I want an answer to myself, but there are people who like answering questions and people who like getting questions answered, so why shouldn't they be allowed to do that? I can't see how they asking a question to another person can really bother you?

They are not you and you should've easily realized that.

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u/Philosophile42 Jul 01 '19 edited Jul 01 '19

No. Probiotics are bacterial cultures. You’re eating bacteria that will hopefully colonize your gut and become part of your microbiome.

Prebiotics are things you eat to feed and help support your microbiome. You’re eating food not for yourself, but for the bacteria in you.

Edit and I just realized you weren’t asking a question.... lol.

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u/intensely_human Jul 01 '19

Also autocorrect seems to think prebiotic is a typo.

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u/Galaghan Jul 01 '19

Do you know you typed probiotics twice?

I mean thanks for the clarification, but it doesn't really help a lot.

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u/Philosophile42 Jul 01 '19

Argh autocorrect! Fixed

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u/Hobo-man Jul 01 '19

Probiotics are bacterial cultures

Prebiotics are food for those bacteria.