{"id":4345,"date":"2023-05-25T14:29:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T12:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2023\/05\/25\/al-dente-is-better\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T14:29:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T12:29:17","slug":"al-dente-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/2023\/05\/25\/al-dente-is-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Al dente is better!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]How do you like your pasta cooked?<br \/>\nOk, tastes are subjective, of course. Still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Al dente<\/em> has objective advantages. Just be careful not to cook it too shortly, having it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/2022\/11\/30\/dente-e-chiodo\/\">to the nail<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>First of all, although it may seem counterintuitive, but it is more easily digestible.<\/p>\n<p>By cooking pasta <em>al dente<\/em>, the starch granules hydrate, without dispersing in the water (as they would with prolonged cooking). So the nutritional properties remain intact.<\/p>\n<p><em>Al dente<\/em> pasta has a lower glycemic index: starch can be assimilated gradually, avoiding a rise in blood sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it needs to be chewed longer. This causes the salivary glands to secrete <em>ptyalin<\/em>, an enzyme which acts on the complex chains of starch (<em>amylase action<\/em>, to be fussy!), reducing them to less complex structures and facilitating the subsequent completion of digestion.<\/p>\n<p>There is yet another <em>bonus<\/em>: the slow assimilation of starches also leads to an increase in our body&#8217;s production of those hormones that regulate the <em>sense of satiety<\/em>\u00a0(above all, <em>leptin<\/em> and <em>ghrelin<\/em> ), which will therefore be more prolonged over time.<br \/>\nThus distracting us from the irrepressible desire to open that damned fridge door!<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of fridge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/refrigeration\/?lang=en\">I sell them<\/a>. As well as equipment for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/cooking\/?lang=en\">cooking pasta<\/a>. <em>Al dente<\/em>, or any way you like it cooked![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text text_larger=&#8221;no&#8221;]How do you like your pasta cooked? Ok, tastes are subjective, of course. Still&#8230; Al dente has objective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virdex.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}