There’s a Secret to Eating a Healthier Bowl of Pasta
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iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — People love pasta but it’s not exactly the healthiest thing for you. For example, the carbohydrates in pasta can cause weight gain while the glucose from the starch spikes the body’s blood sugar.
However, a show called Trust Me, I’m A Doctor on Britain’s BBC suggests there’s an easy way to reduce some of the less beneficial effects of pasta.
The solution, according to Dr. Denise Robertson of the University of Surrey, is to let your pasta cool down before eating it and then, reheat it.
Robertson had people eat freshly made pasta, pasta that was cooled down or reheated pasta with each participant then giving a blood sample every 15 minutes for two hours.
The result was that while cold pasta reduced the blood sugar increase, reheated pasta actually cut the increase by 50 percent compared to the just cooked pasta.
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