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6 best fat-burning foods

Beans
Resistant starch: 8 grams per ½ cup
Smart serving suggestions:

  • Snack on chilled pinto bean dip with crudites
  • Substitute hummus for mayo on sandwiches
  • Add black beans to garden salads
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Bananas (slightly green)
Resistant starch: 6 grams per small piece of fruit
Smart serving suggestions:

  • Slice and mix with yogurt and oats for breakfast
  • Dip in yogurt, roll in chopped nuts, and freeze as an ice-cream alternative
  • Dice and toss with lemon juice, salt, sugar, and onion to make tangy banana chutney

Potatoes and yams
Resistant starch: 4 grams per ½ cup
Smart serving suggestions:

  • Serve cold potato salad as a side dish
  • Add chilled, chunked red potatoes to a salad
  • Puree cooked white potatoes to create a chilled garlic potato soup

Barley
Resistant starch: 3 grams per ½ cup
Smart serving suggestions:

  • Add to chilled lentil salad
  • Mix into tuna, chicken, or tofu salad
  • Sprinkle onto garden salads

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Brown rice
Resistant starch: 3 grams per ½ cup
Smart serving suggestions

  • Order brown rice sushi
  • Mix chilled brown rice with fat-free milk, raisins, and cinnamon in place of cold cereal for breakfast
  • Add to chilled marinated cucumbers as a side dish

Corn
Resistant starch: 2 grams per ½ cup
Smart serving suggestions:

  • Add to a taco salad, burrito, or quesadilla
  • Sprinkle into salsa
  • Make fresh corn relish

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