What foods contain easily digestible starches, or Bad Carbohydrates?
Foods made from processed wheat, such as flour, contain starches that are digested much faster than starches present in whole grains. During processing, wheat goes through a myriad of processes like rolling, beating, and sifting to become flour. These are the same activities your body goes through in the digestion of whole foods. So, if the flour manufacturer is pounding the fiber out of wheat and basically beating it down before you get it, then your body is no longer required to do the hard work. Essentially, they are also removing the health benefits as they make it more palatable. On the up side, most store bought pastas have been so condensed to make those fun little shapes that they take longer to digest and break down putting them on the right side of the good carb, bad carb debate.
