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a starchy and demanding teacher
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Potatoes Protein content: around four grams per medium-size potato (baked)
While the potato is often lumped in with starchy foods like rice, bread, pasta, and cereal, it’s—surprise!—actually classified as a vegetable.
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Caroline Tien, SELF, 8 Jan. 2025
Potato Chips and French Fries: These foods contain acrylamide, a compound formed when starchy foods are cooked at high temperatures, such as frying.
—Holly Eve, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Although legumes are technically starchy vegetables, there is a big difference, Katz said.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
Recommendations from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans say that Americans should eat more beans, peas and lentils, cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables and limit sugars, sodium and saturated fats.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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Caroline Tien, SELF, 8 Jan. 2025
Potato Chips and French Fries: These foods contain acrylamide, a compound formed when starchy foods are cooked at high temperatures, such as frying.
—Holly Eve, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Although legumes are technically starchy vegetables, there is a big difference, Katz said.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
Recommendations from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans say that Americans should eat more beans, peas and lentils, cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables and limit sugars, sodium and saturated fats.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
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“Starchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/starchy. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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starchy
adjective
starchier; starchiest
1
: containing, consisting of, or resembling starch
starchy foods
2
: consisting of or marked by formality or stiffness
starchiness
noun
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