diff --git a/components/heap/heap_task_info.c b/components/heap/heap_task_info.c
index 880bf358fd..8844e4fea8 100644
--- a/components/heap/heap_task_info.c
+++ b/components/heap/heap_task_info.c
@@ -57,12 +57,16 @@ FORCE_INLINE_ATTR heap_t* find_biggest_heap(void)
     heap_t *heap = NULL;
     heap_t *biggest_heap = NULL;
     SLIST_FOREACH(heap, &registered_heaps, next) {
-        if (biggest_heap == NULL) {
+        /* In the case where we are currently looking for the biggest heap during startup,
+         * before the scheduler stated, all the memory regions marked as startup stacks will
+         * be NULL here. As such, they must be ignored. After boot up, this statement will
+         * never be true. */
+        if (heap->heap == NULL) {
+            /* Continue the loop */
+        } else if (biggest_heap == NULL) {
             biggest_heap = heap;
         } else if ((biggest_heap->end - biggest_heap->start) < (heap->end - heap->start)) {
             biggest_heap = heap;
-        } else {
-            // nothing to do here
         }
     }
     return biggest_heap;
diff --git a/examples/system/heap_task_tracking/advanced/README.md b/examples/system/heap_task_tracking/advanced/README.md
index ca8fe744d4..60184556e5 100644
--- a/examples/system/heap_task_tracking/advanced/README.md
+++ b/examples/system/heap_task_tracking/advanced/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 | Supported Targets | ESP32 | ESP32-C2 | ESP32-C3 | ESP32-C5 | ESP32-C6 | ESP32-C61 | ESP32-H2 | ESP32-H21 | ESP32-H4 | ESP32-P4 | ESP32-S2 | ESP32-S3 |
 | ----------------- | ----- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | --------- | -------- | --------- | -------- | -------- | -------- | -------- |
 
-# Heap Task Tracking Basic Example
+# Heap Task Tracking Advanced Example
 
 ## Overview
 
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The main then goes into a loop calling functions retrieving statistics for the "
 For each tasks, the following information is retrieved and printed:
     - the task name
     - the task status (running or deleted)
-    - the overall peak memory usage of the task 
+    - the overall peak memory usage of the task
     - the overall current memory usage of the task
 For each heap used by a given task, the following information is printed:
     - the heap name