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Message: <blockquote data-quote="milesrf" data-source="post: 1975239" data-attributes="member: 13629"><p>Looks like you're relying on the old assumption that the simple sugars (such as glucose) can only be removed by digestion from the ends of the chains in starches.  More recent recent research has shown that any slowdown is due to the TYPES of links between the simple sugars in the chain, not whether they are at the end of the chain.  The more common types of starches have none of the more slowly broken types of links, and therefore digest about as fast as table sugar.  The starches in sweet potatoes, in cooked dried beans, and in pizza, have enough of the more slowly broken types of links, to be therefore more slowly converted to simple sugars.  The cellulose found in wood has a type of links that cannot be broken by human digestive enzymes, and is therefore usually called a fiber even though it is technically a carbohydrate.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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