"Gregory Morrow"
Hate to disagree with you, but that is a load of codswallop. I often eat only a smallish bowl of white rice for breakfast (around 8AM) and I am much less likely to feel hungry up to lunchtime than if I had eggs and various meats for breakfast. I have tested this and it is true.
People who eat rice as part of a recognized healthy diet (Mediterraneans and Asians alike) eat WHITE rice exclusively. Europeans don't know brown rice from a hole in the ground. Only Norf Amerigovespuccilandian granola types eat brown rice, and there is nothing wrong with that, but it isn't significantly better for you.
Comparable white rice and brown rice (long grain, short grain, basmati) have the same nutrition (that contained in white rice), and brown rice has added trace elements, and bran which is a NOT nutritious inasmuch as you can't survive on bran alone, but is still healthy for you. What it boils down to (as it were) is the following:
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Besides the fiber found in the brown rice, the bran contains nutrients like magnesium, manganese, and zinc. White rice has reduced levels of these nutrients
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In our house, we eat both brown and white rice, usually alternating between the two: white short grain sushi rice (Maruyu brand) and brown short grain organic Lundberg. After trying just about everything on sale here in every type, we have found these to be the best of white and best of brown.
P.S.: What you said might be true for Uncle Ben's rice in usual round-eye portions (two tablespoons) but not the stuff we eat in the quanbreasties we eat it in.
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"Compbuttion is the chief law of human existence."
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