Do you really think rice cakes are healthy?

I crave crunchy food. So yes.

There are no healthy/unhealthy foods, only healthy/unhealthy diets. And "healthy" certainly doesn't mean the same thing as "low calorie". If you were overweight because you ate lots of cookies every day (as well as meals) and you change to eating rice cakes instead of cookies then your diet just got a bit healthier. But if you were anorexic and lived on rice cakes and water, so you cut out the rice cakes and change to eating fresh vegetables and protein, then your diet also got healthier. The rice cakes by themselves aren't good or bad.

I eat Japanese rice cakes because their yumminess far outweighs their calories and western rice cakes because they can be topped with yumminess.

I do have an issue with low nutrition food being labelled as healthy though. Being sugar, salt and fat free doesn't actually make something good. I gave my first son far too many of such snacks, which I believe may have contributed to certain health issues, so with no. 2 things will be different.

So, I don't think rice crackers are unhealthy or 'not good', but I do have to keep an eye on their consumption.

senbei!! i'm so in love with onigiri senbei, but the normal ones are good too

I love my rice cakes Indian style, soft and hot! Called idlis and eaten with sambar and coconut chutney!
l LOVE rice cakes, rice pilaf, saffron rice, rice with butter, biryani rice, yoghurt rice, Spanish rice, Middle Eastern style rice, Afghan style rice, Thai basil fried rice, fried rice of every kind, sushi rice, rice with seaweed, rice in soups, curries with rice, etc.!
I'm Indian and I've lost all my weight eating rice everyday for lunch and dinner! I would be lost without my rice dishes.
Everything is healthy if eaten in moderation. Everything can be unhealthy if overeaten! If you have the calories, go for it!

That list of rice really made me drool!

No rice!

Rice is not good for health

Really?! I wonder what the Chinese have been doing for centuries....

With a name like Abhishek I am assuming he's Indian so he already knows about rice eating culture. Unfortunately, the internets brocscience got to him too

If it was coming from an American/English/australian I'd be calling 'ignorance'. I'm from Aus and living in Japan and can say YES they eat their rice but they don't eat anywhere near the junk that we do in the West. It's awesome.

Bread is the evil stuff, right?

You look at most (if not all) cultures and you will find high amounts of carbs usage. Indians have bread/rice. Japanese have noodles/rice. I don't eat alot of chinese but see rice as a staple product. Arabs are big on bread and rice too. Africans eat alot of bread/rice. Italians are big on pasta and bread. Most of the european countries consume high amounts of breads. US is high amounts of breads and pasta too.

Eating carbs is good and has served us well for many millenias but it was declared recently as an evil (I think dr. Atkins started the trend?). Carbs was and still is the main source of nutrition and calories for human race because of ease of availability and cost

I personally find bread 'evil' as the gluten just doesn't work well with me. Bloating, cramps, acne etc etc... didn't know this until recently when I tried gluten free for a couple of weeks. It's just too modified these days to what it was in the past

How do you term healthy? I buy organic honey ones that I love! For a crunchy snack they are much better then some processed junk. Don't you malign my rice cakes!

I haven't seen honey ones. Where do you get them?

I wouldn't go so far as to say they're unhealthy, but there are definitely more nutritionally beneficial foods you could choose from. There are also worse foods you could choose

I think they are just one of those foods that are just...there haha. Like if you like them, great they probably aren't hurting you (unless you're like the girl who is allergic to rice. ), but if you don't like them, then that's cool too, just more calories to spend on something else, if that makes sense. haha.

I find it a bit disturbing that anyone would feel "deprived" of rice cakes, as if it were a chocolate peanut cluster or something. It's a damn rice cake, one of the poster children of dieting. How anyone could feel guilty from eating a rice cake is beyond me. Unless we're talking about Asian rice cakes like mochi, which are made with glutinous rice and bean pastes, and can be pretty dense calorie bombs. I personally love rice but dislike all varieties of rice cakes.

I call them "air cookies". :laugh:

No I don't think they are healthy, they may be low calorie but most are highly processed with zero nutritional value. And if you are on a low caloric intake getting the most "bang for your bite" is a must, although I have them as a treat now and then rather than lays potato chips ! (Such as on a free day).

My motto is eating "lean and clean" and I do my best to only eat foods that adhere to being BOTH lean and clean. Rice cakes/crackers may be lean but they aren't "clean" therefore, they are not a daily food intake for me.

I prefer to have wasa rye crackers in place of rice crackers/cakes (or you could get brown rice cakes..they might be more nutritious), wasa rye crackers are very low calorie but are whole grain, so you at least get some fiber and a bit of iron. They are delicious with everything from peanut butter to cheese to a bread substitute so eat a couple of pieces with your eggs...spread on some avocado instead of butter and YUM!

No rice!

Rice is not good for health

Care to explain why. Seriously, I am very interested. I am sceptic about many health claims online though so care to explain via some linked peer-reviewed studies why rice is not good for your health?

See, i have a been there done that experiences and i am telling from my own experience and not making up...

Rice contains a lot of carbs, these carbs when digested into the system is converted into fats and you know what happens when a lot of fat is accumulated in the body...


Rice is good for people who work very very hard like farmers and peasants of developing country and not for people in USA.

My weight loss was slow initially but became rapid when i completely abandoned rice!

I have eaten rice most of the 311 days I've been on MFP. I've lost 26% of my original body weight. I'm glad no one told my body that I couldn't eat rice. I'm not a farmer or a hard-working peasant, just a teacher.

Mam,

I have explained it in an earlier thread...let me repeat it....since i am not a caucasian but an asian ,therefore my body structure is very different.

Asians and more specifically south asians are prone to diabetics,obesity and heart diseases....

For us consumption of high carb food like rice is an option only if we are working very very hard!


Consumption of rice is not good if you are leading a sedentary lifestyle like desk job.

Thanks, for the post. I am going to get some rice cakes tomorrow.

You people should really learn to read nutritional labels before making your assertions. Rice cakes are almost a completely pure carb source you can use them in many ways and meals.

oh and the white cheddar ones are yummy. A while back, my then two year old was crying and begging me for cake. My sons Godfather was watching this and was on the floor laughing when he realized my son wanted a rice cake