Surprising reason you should freeze your bread before toasting

It’s the toast of the town.

A hot hack for cutting calories from starchy foods like rice and bread — without having to shrink portion size — has some TikTokkers saying it’s the best thing since sliced bread.

Dubbed by one cooking enthusiast as an “Asian mom secret,” the toasty tip involves cooking starchy food, cooling or freezing it and then reheating it. 3

The chemical process — called starch retrogradation — has the starch molecules reforming into a more compact, crystalline structure upon cooling.

While it doesn’t significantly cut calories, this move can help control appetite because the digestible starch is converted into a resistant starch, which resists digestion in the small intestine.

Instead, it moves to the large intestine, where it’s fermented by gut bacteria.

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