Starch as food

Starch is the most important carbohydrate in the human diet and is contained in many staple
foods. The major sources of starch intake worldwide are the cereals rice, wheat, and maize, and
the root vegetables potatoes and cassava.[9] Many other starchy foods are grown, some only in
specific climates, including acorns, arrowroot, arracacha, bananas, barley, breadfruit, buckwheat,
canna, colacasia, katakuri, kudzu, malanga, millet, oats, oca, polynesian arrowroot, sago,
sorghum, sweet potatoes, rye, taro, chestnuts, water chestnuts and yams, and many kinds of
beans, such as favas, lentils, mung beans, peas, and chickpeas.

Widely used prepared foods containing starch are bread, pancakes, cereals, noodles, pasta,
porridge and tortilla.

Digestive enzymes have problems digesting crystalline structures. Raw starch will digest poorly
in the duodenum and small intestine, while bacterial degradation will take place mainly in the
colon. Resistant starch is starch that escapes digestion in the small intestine of healthy
individuals. In order to increase the digestibility, starch is cooked. Hence, before humans started
using fire, eating grains was not a very useful way to get energy.
Carbohydrates are found in starchy or sugary foods, such as bread, rice, pasta, cereal, potatoes, peas, corn, fruit, fruit juice, milk, yogurt, cookies, candy, soda,
and other sweets.

high in calcium and potassium salts (the alkaline earth elements)

Food %Starch %Protein Calcium mg / 100g

Amaranth 16.23 3.8 47
Arrow root 88 0.3 40
Artichoke- Jerusalem 8 2 14
Buckwheat, Kasha 71 13 18
Carob flour 40 4.6 348
Cassava 37 1.36 16
Cornflour - refined: avoid 60 11 11
Maize (dry) 25 14.5 25
Cornmeal 60 11 11
Millet, flake and flour 72 11 8
Potato, baked 17 2.5 15
Potato flour 80 6.9 65
Potato
Pasta, fresh 25 5 6
Quinoa grain 52 14 47
Rice, brown grain 77 8 23
Rice, white grain 79 6.5 3
Rice, white flour 79 6 10
Spaghetti, dry 62 13 21
Sago - refined: avoid
Sorghum and Sorghum flour 74 11.3 28
*Sweet Chestnut dry, peeled 75 5 64
Sweet Potato, baked 7 2 38
Tapioca, Cassava, Manioc, dry perl 85 0.19 20
*Teff 36 13.3 180
Wild Rice, grain 72 14.7 21
Yam, baked 27 1.49 14
Breadfruit 16 1.07 17
Wheat flour 76 10.33 15

Nightshades >

Chili pepper, Eggplant, Garden huckleberry,Wolfberry or Goji berry,Ground cherry,Potato,Sweet

pepper,Tamarillo,Tomatillo,Tomato
Potatoes, tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, tamarios, pepinos, pimentos, paprika,
cayenne, and Tabasco sauce are classified as nightshade foods