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White bread is a simple?

Quote White bread is a simple starch that converts to sugars easily. It has little nutrition. A whole grain bread is better. It has fiber and more nutrients.Quote What is simple starch and conplex starch ? Does it have alot of sugar in it than brown bread? If people have diabetes should one eat bread? Quote Mashed potatoes means taking the peel (fiber and most of the vitamins) off the potato, boiling it, and adding butter and milk or cream. So you remove the best parts and add fat. Quote Why do you need to add butter and milk or cream to it?

Public Comments

1. you can mash them with the skins on. milk makes them smoother, and easier to mash.
2. Really hard to discern what your questioning. If you want a recipe for mashed potatoes or an explanation about simple carbs. A raw potato is a complex carb with most of the nutrition in the peel. When you cook a potato, you change the molecular structure and convert the complex carb to a starch (a simple carb). People add milk, butter &/or cream to mashed potatoes to make them taste richer BUT adding protein (milk) and fats (butter or cream) makes mashed potatoes more nutritious and the protein & fat helps to slow down the rise in blood sugar. For optimal health, you want your blood sugar to remain stable. Not sudden rises which trigger an equal amount of insulin which creates a roller coaster effect of high & low blood sugar. Constant high insulin levels do as much damage as high blood sugar. A surge of insulin will force blood sugar down, sometimes too low, which will create cravings for more simple carbs to raise the blood sugar levels. All carbohydrates (even vegetables) convert to glucose (sugar) in the body. Sugar & starches are simple carbs that convert very fast & very easily and create spikes in blood sugar levels. Diabetics should control their carb intake to control their blood sugar levels. Before medications & synthetic insulin injections, diabetics controlled their blood sugar by controlling their carbs to less than 9 grams of carbs per hour.