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Starch is a carbohydrate found in foods like bread, pasta, rice, and potatoes, and it quickly raises blood sugar and insulin on Keto. Resistant starch acts more like fiber, but foods containing it still come packaged with regular starch. This guide explains how starch works and the best low-carb alternatives. Going Keto means cutting carbs from your diet. The forbidden carbs fall into two main categories: sugar and starch. This article is about starch. Starch, which is just a cluster of sugar molecules, is found in foods like rice, bread, pasta, potatoes, yams, and carrots. Since the Agricultural Revolution about 12,000 years ago, starch has dominated the human diet. Once we started growing crops, we hung up the hunting spears. But 12,000 years is nothing in evolutionary terms. In the millions of years before agriculture, hominids evolved to flourish without a steady supply of carbs. We evolved, in other words, to cycle in and out of ketosis.

That’s how our ancestors stayed lean and metabolically flexible. Taking a break from starch can help you activate your fat-burning machinery too. Today you’ll learn what starch is, why it’s prohibited on the Keto diet, and how to replace starch with low-carb alternatives. Starch is a type of carbohydrate, the primary way in which plants store energy. Plants form carbs via photosynthesis and store them as starch and sugar. Animals eat plants and store the digested sugar (glucose) as glycogen. Starch is made up of molecules called polysaccharides. In layman's terms, this means that starches are made of chains of sugar molecules. That sugar molecule is called glucose. It’s the same molecule that arrives in your blood as blood sugar (blood GlycoMode glucose formula) when you digest starch. The two main starch molecules are called amylose and amylopectin. When you eat amylose or amylopectin, an enzyme called amylase breaks them into glucose for easy absorption through the small intestine.