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Can Resistant Starch Lower Your Next Blood Sugar Spike? Inside the “Second-Meal Effect”

Resistant starch foods including oats, legumes, bananas, and whole grains illustrating the second-meal effect on blood sugar.

Could the carbohydrates eaten at breakfast affect the blood sugar response to lunch? Research on resistant starch and the second-meal effect suggests they might. Resistant starch escapes much of the digestion that normally occurs in the small intestine. As a result, less of it is immediately converted to glucose, while …

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