Eczema-Friendly Snack Hack
(Nourishing, Gut-Healing, & Delicious)
Snacks are everything, especially for little ones with eczema or those now in maintenance mode after clearing up eczema.
We make every bite count — supporting gut health and managing inflammation to keep eczema at bay… via delicious good food. Always.
Read below to learn how to harness the gut-healing power of resistant starch!
COOL your cooked STARCH
Why? Cooling your cooked starch (i.e. baked potato, cooked rice, etc.) creates “resistant starch” —
WHAT RESISTANT STARCH DOES
Resistant Starch feeds the good bacteria in your gut!
Among many other benefits of resistant starch, it...
lowers inflammation in the gut (key for eczema elimination)
seals up a leaky gut thanks to the butyrate (again, KEY for eczema elimination!)
increases absorption of important minerals (i.e. calcium, magnesium, etc.)
makes your bowel movements regular (can I get an amen?)
can reduce fat stores because the resistant starch feed bacteria instead of fat cells.
Thus this hack also applies to cooked & cooled rice, cassava, potatoes, oats, plantains, and legumes (essentially, any food sources that contain resistant starch)
& yes, the benefits are retained even if you re-heat that cooked then cooled starch.
Fascinating, right?!
Image/Graph credit: @glucosegoddess
This hack is beneficial to help you with blood sugar management— the graph shows how cooling the cooked potato prevented a blood sugar spike from happening! Blood sugar imbalances/spikes are directly tied to inflammation, gut & skin health, eczema, PCOS, mood, weight, cravings, hormone imbalance, and more.
Resistant starch [RS] is a type of starch that is not digested in the stomach or small intestine, reaching the colon intact. Thus, it “resists’ digestion. This explains why we don’t see spikes in either blood glucose or insulin after eating RS, and why we don’t obtain significant calories from RS”
Make this eczema-friendly & gut health supporting snack plate with me!