[HTML][HTML] Perspective: Whole and refined grains and health—Evidence supporting “make half your grains whole”

JM Jones, CG García, HJ Braun - Advances in Nutrition, 2020 - Elsevier
Research-based dietary guidelines suggest that consumers “make half their grains whole.”
Yet some advocate ingesting only whole-grain foods (WGFs) and avoiding all refined-grain …

White rice, brown rice and the risk of type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

J Yu, B Balaji, M Tinajero, S Jarvis, T Khan… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective Intake of white rice has been associated with elevated risk for type 2 diabetes
(T2D), while studies on brown rice are conflicting. To inform dietary guidance, we …

White rice intake and incident diabetes: a study of 132,373 participants in 21 countries

B Bhavadharini, V Mohan, M Dehghan… - Diabetes …, 2020 - Am Diabetes Assoc
OBJECTIVE Previous prospective studies on the association of white rice intake with
incident diabetes have shown contradictory results but were conducted in single countries …

Causal relations among starch chain-length distributions, short-term retrogradation and cooked rice texture

C Li, JX Luo, CQ Zhang, WW Yu - Food Hydrocolloids, 2020 - Elsevier
Rice is cooked and consumed after a short-term cooling which is associated with the short-
term starch retrogradation. The two most important textural attributes (hardness & stickiness) …

In vitro digestion rate of fully gelatinized rice starches is driven by molecular size and amylopectin medium-long chains

C Li, B Gong, T Huang, WW Yu - Carbohydrate Polymers, 2021 - Elsevier
In current study, the effects of starch fine molecular structures on its in vitro digestibility at
fully gelatinized stage were investigated. The digestion kinetics of 15 fully gelatinized rice …

Combination of parallel and sequential digestion kinetics reveals the nature of digestive characteristics of short-term retrograded rice starches

C Li, Y Hu - Food Hydrocolloids, 2020 - Elsevier
Cooked rice is commonly consumed after a short period of cooling, which results in the short-
term starch retrogradation. Starch fine molecular structures that are important for its in vitro …

Causal relations among starch fine molecular structure, lamellar/crystalline structure and in vitro digestion kinetics of native rice starch

C Li, Y Hu, F Gu, B Gong - Food & Function, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Native rice starch is a source of slowly digestible starch in eg low-moisture baked products,
while the molecular and lamellar/crystalline structure giving rise to this low-digestibility …

Radio frequency energy regulates the multi-scale structure, digestive and physicochemical properties of rice starch

Z Zhang, M Zhang, B Zhang, Y Wang, W Zhao - Food Bioscience, 2022 - Elsevier
Radio frequency (RF) heating as an emerging technology was applied to regulate the
structural, digestive and physicochemical properties of rice starch. In vitro digestibility results …

Application of first-order kinetics modeling to reveal the nature of starch digestion characteristics

W Yu, X Zhou, C Li - Food & Function, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Mathematical modeling of in vitro starch digestograms is essential to understand starch
structure–digestibility relationships as it covers all detailed information of the starch …

[HTML][HTML] Perspective: refined grains and health: genuine risk, or guilt by association?

GA Gaesser - Advances in Nutrition, 2019 - Elsevier
Refined grain intake is widely assumed to be associated with adverse health outcomes,
including increased risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), type 2 diabetes (T2D), and …