What Elements Make Up Starch?
“What elements make up starch? Well the scientific answer is carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. But what it really is are carbs. We all have heard about carbs, or carbohydrates. Essentially, starches are sugars that merely require a few more steps to make them into glucose, but they are no better for the low-carb diet than sugar. Starches are often given names that end in the letters AN, such as gylcan or mannan, so when you read the labels and see ingredients you don’t recognize, it’s safe to assume that any word that ends in AN or ANS is a starch. So as you know, potatoes and bread are high in starch, or carbohydrates. They taste great, but they definitely turn into sugar very quickly, so you have to be careful. Now if you are going to eat a potato, the best way to peel a potato is with a potato peeler. What you do is you simply go from the top down, peeling away the skin. Now when you come across an eye like this, you actually take thee end, and dig it out, and that way you have a nice cl
