Healthiest starch

[NerdGirl]

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/59246/

I say quinoa, because it's also got lots of protein and iron.

[Yarjka]

I find Inconveniently Willful's quote "Once upon a time, my mother attended culinary school to become a chef and had to read an entire chapter about starches in one of her textbooks. As a result, she knows a lot about them" to be pretty funny, considering there are food science classes out there devoted to starches alone (using textbooks such as this one that contain many chapters about starches). I can't tell if IW was being facetious or not ... I think so, but it's hard for me to tell. (I think I'm losing my ability to read online intonation.)

[Darth Fedora]

I'm a nutrition major, and often, when people hear that, the first thing they ask me is, "So, what do you think about __(food)__? Is it healthy?" I always end up giving kind of a wishy-washy answer about how most foods in moderation can help provide some of the variety of nutrients that's necessary in an overall healthy diet, but I know that's kind of a disappointing answer to hear. The problem is, what does healthy mean? In the context of "healthiest starch," does it mean lowest calorie density? Lowest fat? Highest protein? Highest amount of some vitamin or mineral (or of all vitamins and minerals)? Most antioxidants? Lowest glycemic load? Lowest glycemic index? The problem with planning a "healthy" diet is that you have to try to take all of those things into account.
But I will say that if you have the choice, whole grains are usually "healthier" than refined grains in all of the areas listed above.

[thebigcheese]

I'm going to second the vote for cinnamon rolls.