Jennie, >Thanks for your well-documented facts about amylase inhibitors. My >understanding is that these are all very heat labile and denatured by cooking. >If we eat raw starch we get a bad pain in the belly because raw starch per se is >resistant to digestion. I eat lots of raw starch (rice, other grains, yams) with NO pains in the belly. Bob Avery ([log in to unmask])