We demonstrate that these enzymes generate aldonic acid-terminated malto-oligosaccharides from retrograded starch and boost ... substrate to maltose by β-amylase. The detailed structure of ...

Now, a new study is providing insight into how the pursuit of starch may have driven evolutionary adaptations in these and other hungry mammals. The research, conducted on 46 mammal species, focuses ...

Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch. By Carl Zimmer As soon as you put starch in your mouth ...

But cooling the foods after cooking them, allows starch molecules to realign into tightly packed crystalline structures, called retrograded starch. Retrograded starch resists digestion in the ...

Amylase inhibitors, also called starch blockers, prevent starches from being absorbed by the body. When amylase is blocked, those carbs pass through the body undigested, so you don't absorb the ...

To the Editor: Ramakrishna et al. (Feb. 3 issue) 1 report that the inclusion of amylase-resistant starch in an oral rehydration solution improved the treatment of cholera by reducing stool output ...

Treatment increased the fraction of the starch that is considered slowly digestible from 10% to 35% and significantly reduced the ability for the enzyme a-amylase to access starch within the cell ...