Dialysis: The process of removing waste products and excess fluid from the body. Dialysis is necessary when the kidneys are not able to adequately filter the blood.
A resistant starch is a starch that resists this enzymatic action and doesnât break down into sugar molecules. For example, raw cornstarch contains a fair amount of resistant starch. If you were to put some in your mouth and chew on it, it wouldnât start to taste sweet no matter how long you chewed it.
Thus, resistant starch is so named because it resists digestion. While most starches are broken down by enzymes in our small intestine into sugar, which is then absorbed into the blood, we canât fully absorb all kinds of starch. Some starch â known as resistant starch (RS) â isnât fully absorbed in the small intestine.