Resistant starch, found in green bananas, resists digestion and reaches your colon where it changes your gut bacteria. In a calorie-matched trial, people eating it lost over six pounds of visceral fat confirmed by MRI scans, with multiple studies showing similar results.
Okay, this is cuckoo bananas, literally. There is a compound in this green banana that has been shown to reduce harmful visceral fat in human-controlled trials. It's called— drum roll please— resistant starch. Resistant starch isn't fiber, but it's also not your regular rice or pasta starch either. It evades digestion in the small intestine and makes its way to the colon, where it reshapes the microbiome. Now let me give you a nibble of data. In a human blinded randomized controlled trial, participants consumed resistant starch or a placebo, calorie-matched, the diets were controlled, and yet by the end of the study, the resistant starch group lost over 6 pounds, especially in inflammatory visceral fat, as confirmed by MRI imaging. And this wasn't a one-off. Multiple randomized trials have shown similar effects. But there's one key detail I haven't told you, one detail that decides whether resistant starch actually improves metabolic health or does almost nothing at all. And that is—
