Combining high-carbohydrate food with polyphenol-rich food is a possible way of producing slowly digestible starch with beneficial health properties. In Japan, non-glutinous and glutinous rice are cooked with adzuki bean and the colour of the cooked rice is pale red. In this article, we show that
Polyphenols are known to have potent antioxidant capacity and other health-beneficial bioactivities. However, extremely low absorption rate of polyphenols restricts their bioactivity in vivo. Development of biopolymer nanoparticle carrier is a promising solution. For the first time, we have