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22/03/2025 12:48 pm
I want someone to convince me why I should pay over triple the price and switch to Waxy Maze starch for insulin/carb up days over the Malodextrin I currently use. I don't use dextrose as it bloated me a bit, but the malodextrin I am currently using works great. I have not tried the waxy maze starch yet. What would make it that much better than malodextrin to be worth the extra $?
22/03/2025 1:06 pm
im not even sure what waxy max starch is, but i know that maltodextrin, despite being a complex carb, is the fastest digestion carbohydrate and will replenish glycogen storages at a faster rate than either dextrose or fructose based on 3 studies done by (Blom et al 1987), (ven Den Burgh et al 1996) and (Piehl et al 2000), "it appears that dextrose is 72% faster than fructose for muscle glycogen resynthesis . As a result, at the end of 8 hours, muscle glycogen was 30% higher with dextrose ingestion" However, in another study, at the end of 4 hours, muscle glycogen was 15% higher with maltodextrin ingestion vs. dextrose so i still cant comment of waxy max starch, but if its more expensive i think its hard to justify spending the extra cash on it when research seems to support maltodextrin use
22/03/2025 1:50 pm
the study states that it used "two energy equivalent carbohydrate drinks, one containing a polyglucoside with a mean molecular mass of 500 000-700 000 (C drink), and one containing monomers and oligomers of glucose with a mean molecular mass of approximately 500" apparently Vitargo was the polyglucoside but i dont believe maltodextrin can be classifed as a "monomer and oligomer of glucose" because is a polysaccharide, so im not sure what they used as the "other" carb in this study was as i had said b4, i didnt know what waxy maze starch was, but ill be sure to look more into because of this study, thanks