SC - corn and potatoes together (OOP)

[Decker, Terry D.]

If I remember the chemistry correctly, both potatoes and corn are starches
and the convert to sugars in the digestive process.

Potatoes produce a soft fiber residue which is easily passed.  Corn, on the
otherhand, is a seed with a lot of indigestible cellulose in the hull, so
that the hulls are softened, but pass almost intact.  Corn is often not on
the permitted list for people with various intestinal and digestive problem,
just for that reason.

As for eating them together being bad for you, maybe, but steak, 'taters and
corn is a U.S. standard fare and the fat in the steak is worse for most
people than anything created by the potatoes and the corn.

Bear

> Unto the Gathered Cooks of the List does Gwynydd send Greetings - and the
> following (seriously OOP question):
> 
> I am on another food related List, and someone asked this question.
> Frankly it sounds like a myth to me, does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> "I have heard that to eat corn and potatos in the
> same meal is a bad idea, since it creates a starch very difficult to
> digest properly - myth?"
> 
> Gwynydd
>