AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Starchy foods are our main source of carbohydrate and have an important role in a healthy diet. Starchy foods – such as potatoes, bread, rice, pasta, and cereals – should make up just over a third of the food you eat, as shown by the Eatwell Guide.

Detailed explanation-2: -Starches. They are complex carbohydrates, which are made of lots of simple sugars strung together. Your body needs to break starches down into sugars to use them for energy. Starches include bread, cereal, and pasta.

Detailed explanation-3: -Complex carbohydrates: These are also called starches. Starches include grain products, such as bread, crackers, pasta, and rice.

Detailed explanation-4: -Starch is a type of carbohydrate – sugar and fibre are other types. Starchy carbohydrate usually provides 4kcal per gram. Starchy foods, sometimes called ‘carbs’, include bread, pasta, rice, breakfast cereals, oats and other grains.

Detailed explanation-5: -Carbohydrates are found in a wide array of both healthy and unhealthy foods-bread, beans, milk, popcorn, potatoes, cookies, spaghetti, soft drinks, corn, and cherry pie. They also come in a variety of forms.