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Green banana

Unripe banana (and its flour): one of the most concentrated food sources of resistant starch. As it ripens, that starch turns into sugar and the effect disappears.
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Low-moderate
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Green banana

Diet · Highest evidence: Low-moderate

Its interest lies in resistant starch, which colon bacteria ferment to produce butyrate.

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