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What sort of food is considered a complex carbohydrate?

Does steamed white rice fall into this category?

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  • momaab
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    From Wiki: Polysaccharides are relatively complex carbohydrates. They are polymers made up of many monosaccharides joined together by glycosidic linkages. They are therefore very large, often branched, macromolecules. They tend to be amorphous, insoluble in water, and have no sweet taste.

    Examples include storage polysaccharides such as starch and glycogen and structural polysaccharides such as cellulose and chitin. Potato, rice, wheat, and maize are major sources of starch in the human diet.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes. Rice is made up largey of starch. And starch is nothing more than glucose molecules strung together. It is very easy for your body to turn starch into glucose. That's why diabetics really have to limit the amount of starchy foods they eat.

  • Legs
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Brown rice, sweet potatoes, anything whole grain.

  • 1 decade ago

    White flour!

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  • 1 decade ago

    Whole wheat pasta.

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