Some people think that if we gorge on rice, the starch will be absorbed into the blood, and it will turn into jelly. And like you have to soak the rice to remove the starch. Then the rice will be safe.
To begin with, you can't wash the starch out of rice. Because rice is almost entirely starch. If you see rice, then you see starch. You can wash the starch off the surface of the rice and even soak it, but you still have to eat the starch because rice is almost entirely starch.
Let's go further. Starch is not absorbed into our bloodstream. In the intestine, it is broken down to glucose, and only then the resulting glucose is absorbed into the blood. So usually the starch in the blood does not float.
When starch clogs blood
Starch will float in the blood if it is poured into it in the form of a solution. There are many different wonderful solutions with which people are temporarily trying to replace blood. Starch is also used there. Previously, this was done more often, but then somehow they stopped.
Starch solutions are very good at retaining water in the bloodstream. They tried to use them for severe blood loss or shock, but it turned out that it can be harmful. Sometimes the starch would clog the kidneys and they would refuse to work.
It ended up leaving the starch solutions to the military. There, young and initially very healthy people are losing blood on the battlefield. It is important for them to keep more fluid in the bloodstream so as not to die of shock. Well, young kidneys cope with starch better than any goner in civilian life.
On the topic of the military, they once told us at the Medical University a story about durum wheat.
Durum Wheat Tale
I live in the Altai Territory. This is one of two regions of our country where rare varieties of durum wheat were grown on an industrial scale.
The fact is that good durum wheat requires a climate like our Siberian one. That is why Canada turned out to be the world trendsetter in this matter.
So I was told that in the sixties of the last century, when the Americans got bogged down in the Vietnam War, we in Altai grew some rare wheat that could incredibly effectively retain water in blood. Well, it also saved the lives of American soldiers. Ours sold all the reserves of this wheat to the militarists, and now we do not have it. Have you heard this story?
