White Rice vs Brown Rice

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,692 Member
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    jcp3677 wrote: »
    Brown rice has 4x the fiber, 3x the magnesium, and 20% less carbs
    These numbers don't mean much when you're comparing them to something that's minute with nutritional value and fiber to begin with.


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  • mariaoutlook
    mariaoutlook Posts: 130
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    I prefer brown rice than (ordinary) white rice. But my favourite are basmati, jasmine and wild rice.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
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    Brown rice is good, but I love white rice. Put some sugar, cinnamon, little butter, and add milk, and it's delicious. You don't have to have a lot, but it's a super snack.
  • tennisdude2004
    tennisdude2004 Posts: 5,609 Member
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    jcp3677 wrote: »
    Brown rice has 4x the fiber, 3x the magnesium, and 20% less carbs

    Yes but in cooked brown rice the nutrients are in the bran and bound up by phytate's which humans don't process very well, so whilst they are in the food, we do not absorb them.

    However we don't have the same issue with white rice as the bran is removed already so we get better mineral absorption from the white rice nutrients.

    White rice all the way - but in moderation!
  • stephdeeday
    stephdeeday Posts: 43 Member
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    I love white rice so much, a bowl of white rice with soya sauce is comfort food to me. Brown rice doesn't taste as great to me so I figure I'll stick with what I like. I get plenty of fibre elsewhere.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
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    Jasmine rice. So delicious. So bloating. Rice, y u no like me??????
  • Delilahhhhhh
    Delilahhhhhh Posts: 477 Member
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    MrM27 wrote: »
    jcp3677 wrote: »
    Brown rice has 4x the fiber, 3x the magnesium, and 20% less carbs
    And 100x the dirt taste.

    Just for you ;)
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  • forwardmoving
    forwardmoving Posts: 96 Member
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    MrM27 wrote: »
    jcp3677 wrote: »
    Brown rice has 4x the fiber, 3x the magnesium, and 20% less carbs
    And 100x the dirt taste.

    And brown rice has more arsenic
    http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-much-arsenic-is-in-your-rice/index.htm

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