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Following the belly flab thread https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/off_belay/belly_flab-740785?v=1#x9540502 got me wondering. If complex carbohydrate is better than simple, what is the most complex carb that can be digested? and which foods contain it?

I did try Google but I just got adverts for diets 😂

Entrails - heparan sulfate in that membranous stuff that they are full of. A further plus is that they are loaded with collagen (although not the type in bones and ligaments). Another good source would be brains. 

Think the body finds that some complex carbs are very difficult to digest like whole peanuts and foods with a high fibre content, where oats are digested over a period of time. 

Alphabetti Spaghetti (Cyrillic version). 

So you can either pick up Salmonella or a prion like JKD?

I thought brains and entrails would be protein (ish), rather than carbohydrate

I would guess at the complexity of a carbohydrate being closely aligned with the GI? Kidney beans seem to be very low GI, so maybe they are amongst the most complex carbohydrates?

Well, somewhat. The (very) complex carbohydrate is actually stuck to a protein. However, as I dimly recall heparin is extracted from intestines (there's some videos on the internet of how they do this - mostly in china and not for the squeamish). Heparin, though, is not as complex as heparan sulphate. 

Complex carbohydrate.  It's not right and it's not helpful but I can't get the thought of a deep fried Curlywurly out of my mind....

We didn't couldn't afford fancy-pants Alphabetti Spaghetti but my dad once convinced us that regular spaghetti hoops were a special Halloween edition that spelled out a ghostly "oooooOOOOOooo".

That's pretty cool.

If we're lucky with the Dads we get given, we are indeed blessed.