Food Theory: You're Eating Pasta WRONG!

sir your never-ending pasta bowl oh thanks if you need anything else just let me done excuse me i'm done ready for more pasta you said it's never ending right well yes great also i down the breadsticks and salad those are unlimited too correct oh dear now is the soup endless because if so i'll order that too and you know tell you what i'm going to need a second never-ending pasta bowl just to get a couple in rotation gonna be here a while and i'm planning on eating a lot of pasta honey it's me sell all of our olive garden stock right now yeah he's back free refills on soda correct [Music] thanks hello internet welcome to food theory where with science all things are possible all right i'll admit it theorists i've been daydreaming about olive garden a lot lately like an unhealthy amount though when it comes to olive garden is there really any other kind see their food hasn't touched my lips since the pandemic started but what else can i do it's not like i'm gonna order olive garden as delivery ugh that defeats the whole purpose olive garden is one of those restaurants that has to be done in person if you're gonna do it right cause as everyone knows the minute you sit down inside of an olive garden they start throwing endless and bottomless foods at you from all directions breadsticks soups salads pasta until you leave the restaurant an hour later with enough extra calories in your stomach to keep you in the gym for a week which is both awesome and awful because the venn diagram for reasons pasta is delicious and reasons pasta is unhealthy is basically one circle but here's what i've been noodling about recently friends what if that wasn't the case what if you could enjoy all those tasty carbs on your lips and they wouldn't wind up forever on those hips theorists i wanted to make today's episode because there are some really interesting science-based reasons to believe that pasta can be made healthier not by altering the recipe but by simply changing the temperature not to go full clickbait on your friends but there's really no other way to put it this one trick makes food instantly healthier so grab a fork theorists cause if i'm right about this one the possibilities are endless first let's talk pasta is it healthy or isn't it because i feel like pasta is just one of those foods that's gone in and out of style like 10 times during my life these days i hear a lot about the carbs it contains and yet when i was in grade school this is what got drilled into my brain every single day the food pyramid which celebrated grains as the literal foundation of a healthy diet so what is the deal here is pasta good or is it bad well on one hand pasta is a source of fiber protein and a slew of vitamins and minerals on the other yeah it contains a lot of carbohydrates now carbs are great for energy which is why for instance marathon runners will load up on carbs before a race but for those of us not running marathons on the reg an excessive amount of carbs ain't great particularly refined carbs like the ones found in regular pasta as opposed to whole wheat pasta which isn't typically the default option when you order pasta at a restaurant my local olive garden for instance doesn't currently have whole wheat linguine on the menu but they've served it to me every time i've asked for it in the past according to healthline quote eating refined carbs is linked to drastically increased risk of many diseases including obesity heart disease and type 2 diabetes still even though pasta has plenty of carbs it's by no means the highest carb food out there looking at you french fries plus pasta has a pretty low glycemic index which is a value assigned to foods based on how slowly or how quickly those foods cause increases in blood glucose levels so with all those nutrients and a relatively low glycemic index why does pasta get a bad rap simply put portion control see a serving size of pasta is supposed to be a half cup which is a lot less than you would think and it is definitely a lot less than the plate of pasta you're making for yourself at home and certainly less than what you get served at olive garden how many servings are contained in a never-ending pasta bowl a tad bit higher than a recommended daily dose now when we say that pasta has a lot of carbohydrates what we really mean is that it has a lot of glucose molecules the word carbohydrate is derived from carbon and hydrate as you can see from glucose's structure it's more or less six carbon atoms with six h2o molecules attached now hosta doesn't have a bunch of free glucose molecules floating around in it what it has are long strands of glucose molecules linked together these long glucose strands can come in different lengths and arrangements but generally they're referred to as starches when we ingest a starchy food like pasta bread or potatoes the salivary enzyme amylase gets to work right away in the mouth and it begins breaking the long starch chain down into shorter chunks this process continues in the small intestine where it eventually becomes individual glucose molecules and see that is what our body needs for energy but as long as the glucose molecules remain in their long starch chains they can't be absorbed okay so remember how i said that starches can come in a bunch of different arrangements well some of those arrangements are very easy for our body's enzymes to break apart in this case our small intestine will successfully absorb a whole bunch of free glucose molecules our blood sugar will spike and all those unhealthy dangerous things that we discussed earlier could occur however sometimes glucose molecules are arranged into starches that are a lot tougher to break down these starches are resistant to digestion which is why they're called resistant starches who names these things by the way feel like there could have been more creativity involved if i made a scientific discovery i'd have more fun with it you know like starch nemesis tony starch like and subscribe to food theory starch you know something like that anyway resistant starches can be so difficult and takes so long to break apart that they pass all the way through our entire digestive system to the colon and even beyond without getting fully broken down that means not all of the glucose molecules get broken off the starch chain which means your body effectively gets fewer carbs so at long last this all brings us back to olive garden because the starches in your piping hot freshly boiled pasta actually become more resistant as the pasta cools down and yes this applies to other starchy foods too like potatoes and peas if you've ever noticed how day-old leftover pasta in the fridge has an almost crispy texture that's because it has more resistant starches in it than before thereby making cold pasta healthier than freshly boiled pasta bazinga okay so i can feel your fierce at home rolling your eyes saying to yourself gee thanks matpat you roped us in with that click bait thesis statement earlier and now you're going to tell us that we have to suffer through eating cold pasta in order to glean the benefits of resistant starches and all right i admit i can see where you'd get that idea if you stopped watching the video right now because here's the big twist friends a 2009 study shows that reheated pasta actually contains more resistant starch than the cold pasta so boil's the worst cold's second best and reheated is the best best and if you repeatedly cool and reheat your pasta the presence of resistant starches only accumulates basically it's kind of a what doesn't kill you makes it stronger kind of thing except it's uh makes you more of a resistant starch okay so the science is telling us that cooling and reheating your pasta increases its starch resistance our understanding of digestion tells us that higher starch resistance means that it's harder for our body to break down and therefore should lessen spikes in blood sugar but i'm not okay just leaving this thing with a should is there actual proof of this working in the real world or is it all theoretical food theoretical yeah doesn't quite have the same ring to it does it well i'm happy to report friends that such an experiment was performed on the british television program trust me i'm a doctor they measured the blood sugar of volunteers after eating fresh cold and reheated pasta and the results are precisely what we would expect the largest spikes in blood sugar occurred with fresh pasta and the smallest spikes resulted from reheated pasta granted this was a small scale experiment on a tv show but other more extensive studies have also been carried out and they also support the same findings so if you're like me and your desire to eat healthy is constantly at odds with your desire to eat your body weight at olive garden you can rest a little bit easier tonight knowing that there's still a way to make the huge unhealthy meals that you love a little bit less unhealthy 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Length: 9min 55sec (595 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 29 2021