Water Chestnuts have a high starch content/ Was Re: question about a legal/illegal

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hi mimi,

so amylopectin is more digestable than amylose. interestingly amylose

is more similar in structure to a disaccharide (baseed on the carbon

atoms bound togetherin each sugar unit). do you think amylopectin is

more digestable than a disaccharide? i know that they are all illegal

on scd but just curious about relative digestability. i would have

thought to move from simple sugar to disaccharide to amylose. from what

you sent me it seems to be very different than what i thought.

donna

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> Hi Donna,

> Here is an article about water chestnuts. The article indicates that

> the amylose content of water chestnuts is 29%. Amylose starch is less

> readily digested than amylopectin.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylose

> Mimi

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> http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1745-

4514.2005.00010.x?cookieSet=1 & journalCode=jfbc

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