Resistant starch is a type of carbohydrate found in many grains like pasta and rice, vegetables like potatoes, lentils, beans, unripe bananas, papaya and mangoes. When pasta is cooked and cooled the starch molecules are rearranged, changing the chemical structure. You can’t digest it but your hungry bacteria can!

Gut bacteria ferment resistant starch, and turn it into a fat called butyrate. This is actually great news even though it doesn’t sound it. Starch turning to fat in your gut? Yes! But it’s the hungry bacteria that feast on buyrate not your fat cells. Research shows it can do many more things as well: stimulate blood flow to the colon, help absorb minerals and inhibit the growth of bad bacteria. Resistant starch can also prevent absorption of toxic/carcinogenic compounds, which can protect against bowel cancer.

At Probiotic Foods, we talk a lot about the benefits of dietary fibre for a healthy gut. Probiotic Foods are rich in fermented food fibres that feed your good gut bugs. Just imagine if you also actively change your diet to include more of these resistant starches, what results you might get.

Benefits of eating resistant starch

• Improved feeling of satisfaction and fullness, eat less at meal times
• Better blood sugar control, less insulin required—great for diabetics
• Balanced energy levels
• Better digestion—RS bulks and softens stool, helps regularity
• Can help reduce fat stores as RS feeds bacteria not fat cells

Foods with resistant starch

Probiotic Foods contain fermented fibre from rice, lentils, sweet potato, and seeds rich in RS. RS is high in cooked and cooled potatoes/sweet potatoes, rice, pasta, lentils and beans that have been cooked and cooled including canned beans. Plantains (the less sweet, more starchy sister of the banana) and unripe bananas and other grains like oats and barley are also good sources.To get the most from RS, choose whole, unprocessed sources of carbohydrate such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and beans/legumes. RS is best consumed when part of a meal as in cooled and if desired, gently warmed potato, rice or pasta added to a salad. Start to gradually increase the amount you consume and avoid any of the chemically modified, synthetic and commercialized RS products, such as ‘Hi-Maize Resistant Starch’.

Word of warning

If you have an overgrowth of bacteria in your small intestine, like in the case of SIBO (Small Intestinal Bowel Overgrowth), you may be intolerant to starch. Address your gut imbalance with a SIBO diet before adding any extra starch. Also choose your grains carefully according to your intolerances, blood type and natural preference. Check in with your body using our 30 Day Self-Check Questionnaire.

Try this recipe for green papaya/mango wild rice salad and add a sprinkle of Probiotic Foods for a complete gut-loving meal for you and your family.

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“The gut is the brain. When you look after your gut you feel sharper, more focused and less fuzzy. We explain the gut brain connection to our customers and they get it.”
—
Kahn, Mass Nutrition, Mackay

“We get obsessed about probiotics and forget that prebiotics are equally, if not more, important. Knowing that both are present in Probiotic Foods switched me onto the product.”
—
Sara, Naturopath specialising in Gut Health, Newcastle

“It’s on the counter and once we talk about allergies, immune system and probiotics, customers make the link with the gut and are ready to buy.”
—
Lorenzzo, Nature’s Health Traralgon

“Customers get the natural bacteria from fermented food which is so much better than synthetic strains.”
—
Emmeline, Health and Harmony Wholefoods, Rockhampton

“Fixing your gut bacteria can fix sugar cravings, no more chocolate binges.”
—
Sharon, Ormeau

THE CHEAT SHEET

We gathered all these tips and created a cheat sheet to make it easier to talk about Probiotic Foods. Naturally, when you have experienced the benefits first hand, or have heard Don Chisholm, a.k.a. The Gut Man, speak, it’s easy to talk about it! But if you are new to the range, here are top tips on moving Probiotic Foods off the shelf. Download the cheat sheet here, print and keep at the counter.

1. The power of Probiotic Foods is in the foods.
2. Good bacteria need food (prebiotics) to stay alive and thrive in the gut. Probiotic Foods contain certified organic wholefoods to feed good bacteria.
3. More good bacteria and fibre with each spoonful.
4. Naturally fermented with easy to absorb nutrition from wholefoods—vitamins minerals, and amino acids.
5. Shelf stable. Leave on the bench—so it’s easy to see and remember to take.
6. Made with a tough organic mother culture that contains 12+ strains of beneficial bacteria (view bacteria strains).
7. Start slowly! This is a powerful functional food for you and your gut. First time users start with ⅛ tsp (½ a capsule) and gradually build up to ½ tsp (2 capsules) morning and night. One container will last you more than a month!

Bacteria are our life force. Nothing can survive without essential bacteria (probiotics) and nothing can survive without nutrition getting to cells. Many health shops ask their customers to share some of their symptoms to help them decide whether they could benefit from Probiotic Foods. Here are some quick prompters:

• How do you digest? Do you feel heavy, bloated, with irregular bowels or heartburn?
• What is your energy like? Feeling tired, sluggish, craving sugar?
• Do you often feel moody, irritable, fuzzy in the head?

Offering the Day 1 / Day 30 Self-Check Questionnaire to your customers helps them their health progress, gives great feedback and supports repeat sales (download here.) Don’t forget you can always call the Gut Help Hotline Mon-Fri 9-5pm (07) 5549 3340.

Please share your tops tips and experiences with us. We love your passion for Probiotic Foods!

Medical disclaimer: This blog pro­vides gen­eral infor­ma­tion and dis­cus­sion about gut health and related sub­jects. Whilst every effort is made to present up to date information, the area of gut health and the microbiome are changing constantly. We welcome any comments or suggestions. By reading this blog, you agree not to use this blog as a substitute for medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others. The author encourages you to consult a health professional before making any health changes, especially any changes related to a specific diagnosis or condition. No information contained in these pages should be relied upon to determine diet, make a medical diagnosis, or determine treatment for a medical condition. The information is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified healthcare professional and is not intended as medical advice. Links to other (“third party”) web sites are pro­vided to you to expand understanding of the subject and are not an endorsement or rec­om­men­da­tion by the author for the ser­vices, infor­ma­tion, opin­ion or any other con­tent on the site or as an indi­ca­tion of any affil­i­a­tion, spon­sor­ship or endorse­ment of such third party web sites. Your use of other web­sites is sub­ject to the terms of use for such sites. By reading this blog, you agree that you are responsible for your own health decisions. NO information contained in this blog should be used to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any disease or condition.The contents of these blogs are copyright and available to wholesale partners for free. We encourage you to share with your team and customers on the basis that “Probiotic Foods Australia” is the acknowledged author within the actual media that the blog is reproduced.

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There is no room on the label to show that all the Certified Organic foods have been fermented for more than three weeks by a super-culture of probiotics.

There is no room to show how by going through this fermentation process, all the foods on the label are now more easily absorbed. Which in turn means the released vitamins, amino acids and minerals have a greater chance to get to the cells where they are needed.

There is no room to say that over 20 years of research has created the best nutritionally released product in the world. With a continually expanding range of blends and capsules to suit the entire family.

With this in mind, please advise your customers to only use as little as 1/8th of a teaspoon when first taking these powerful, functional foods. Many people may not have experienced nutrition at this level. The aim is to slowly educate the body to receive quality nutrition.

What is also not apparent from our label is that the mother culture contains over 12 strains of beneficial bacteria, and has been cultured for more than 30 years. Our probiotics were originally cultured from food, not dairy, or faecal matter, nor made in a laboratory. They are uniquely resilient to heat (55ºC) and cold (0º) compared to commercially bred laboratory-raised bacteria.

Probiotic Foods blends and capsules do not need to be refrigerated and will survive in a cool dark place as the probiotics are alive in their own prebiotic food supply.

You can stock Probiotic Foods with the confidence that they do not contain additives or anything artificial—they are simply a source of wholefood energy.

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