WHITE vs BROWN RICE - or NO RICE?

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  • FancyPantsFran
    FancyPantsFran Posts: 3,687 Member
    Not a huge rice person but I love trader joes rice medley
  • YorriaRaine
    YorriaRaine Posts: 370 Member
    Rice sounds so good right now. I absolutely love white rice, I absolutely suck at cooking it :(
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  • Sbrn_
    Sbrn_ Posts: 351 Member
    White rice and noodles are my staples. I'd never cut them out, lest I get vewy, vewy angwy. :mad:
  • Jewlz280
    Jewlz280 Posts: 547 Member
    Neither. Go quinoa or CousCous

    You DO realize that CousCous is just little granules of pasta, right? So, it's not really any better than rice...

    I say eat whichever you like. I usually only use about half a cup and mix it in with veggies and my meat. YUM. Or mix it in a bowl with butter and brown sugar. Even if you are pre-diabetic, you can still eat it. Just don't gorge on it. LOL You also don't have to give up all of the 'whites' as another poster said. You just need to find a good balance. Like, you can have white bread for your sandwich -- just don't eat the whole loaf. You can have potatoes, you just don't need to eat 3 or 4 a day. Just find a balance and eat what you like/tolerate. Just by eating more balanced and losing some weight will help. Good luck!
  • Mangopickle
    Mangopickle Posts: 1,509 Member
    Rice sounds so good right now. I absolutely love white rice, I absolutely suck at cooking it :(

    Get a little Salton 3cup rice cooker. It comes with a cup measure. 1 cup white rice+1cup water, push button, turns off automatically. If using brown rice the ratio is 1cup rice+1 1/2cup water.
    Don't get a big one the rice doesn't turn out as nice as in the 3 cup cooker. If you want to make fried rice use leftover rice from the day before. It is drier and fries up really nicely.
  • vampirette
    vampirette Posts: 12
    Get a little Salton 3cup rice cooker. It comes with a cup measure. 1 cup white rice+1cup water, push button, turns off automatically. If using brown rice the ratio is 1cup rice+1 1/2cup water.
    Don't get a big one the rice doesn't turn out as nice as in the 3 cup cooker. If you want to make fried rice use leftover rice from the day before. It is drier and fries up really nicely.

    Yes, my rice cooker is my saviour and you can also make other things besides rice in them like porridge and even bread! They're relatively inexpensive as far as kitchen appliances go too. I've never seen an Asian household without one ^_^
  • ublanchard
    ublanchard Posts: 47
    Yes it is a filler its cheap way to supplement meals. When I go out for thai food I order without rice or noodles and I feel just fine. When I go to a mexican resturant I orer al la carte for a chile colorado burrito and i only eat the chile i feel fine and satisfied and i save a good 6 dollars.
    Back in the day I would go to a resturant (loyally went for years every friday night) and when I brought I coupon they would give me3/4 of the plate of rice and beans and jip me on the meat. cause it was a filler and they were losing money buy doing buy one get one free.
    This is an economic concern, not a nutritional one. I mean, you have a good idea about saving money whilst not getting the overly huge portions that restaurants tend to serve. But there's nothing wrong, nutritionally, with the consumption of rice just because a restaurant's business model involves maximizing profits by selling dinner combos with sides.
  • GertrudeHorse
    GertrudeHorse Posts: 646 Member
    I personally prefer white rice over brown.

    Both are nutritionally valueless though, so I normally only have rice occasionally.

    Par boiled or re-boiled rice is good for your gut floral as it is a good source of resistant starch.

    What's your definition of "nutritionally valueless"?

    In the USA white rice must be enriched with B1, B3 and iron so it has all that stuff at a bare minimum. Even without enrichment white rice has other good stuff too: 7% of your daily fibre needs, 23% of your manganese, 14% of your selenium requirements, and a fair amount of choline as well. Surely that isn't nutritionally valueless? The nutritiondata.self website gives it an 18/100 rating for nutritional completeness, which isn't amazing compared to other food but is a fair margin from what I would consider "valueless". http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/cereal-grains-and-pasta/5722/2

    As for brown rice, it gets a 33/100 rating for nutritional completeness. Still not amazing but it does give you the following percentages of your recommended intake: Magnesium 21%, Phosphorus 16%, Manganese 88%, Copper 10%, Fibre 14%, as well as some other good stuff like riboflavin, pantothenic acid, folate, thiamin, choline and vitamin K. I'm still not seeing how it's nutritionally valueless as you claim? http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/cereal-grains-and-pasta/5707/2
  • lLionMindl
    lLionMindl Posts: 76 Member
    It doesnt matter just eat it.

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