Which type of rice is more nutritious?!

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uncle bens is healthier as rices that become mushy when cooked have been cooked and freeze dried so they do become mush. However, Brown rice is the best rice to eat, but honestly, i can not stand brown rice.

The darker colours, the more nutrients. If you can't find brown one around you, you can reduce the amout of rice and add some beans instead. Heavy and sticky rices are more nutritous than light and dry rices. When you see the rices, try to pick one with thickest and biggest grain.

brown rice is the best -----with all it's vitamins like b12 etc ,but it dosen't taste good in dishes -
white rice is neutral in flavour ----and acquires the flavour of things added in to it -------but brown rice has an distinct flavour of it's own

good luck

Brown rice is the most nutritious. You should be able to find at least small boxes at the supermarket near all of the other rices

Buy brown rice online.

I quote:

"Rice is nutrient dense and contributes over 15 vitamins and minerals. It is an excellent source of complex carbohydrates, which are the best kind, stored in muscles and used to give us energy when we need it.

Unusual for many high carbohydrate foods, rice contains very high quality proteins, especially when compared to other grains. Rice contains all eight of the essential amino acids, which help to build and maintain muscle tissue and make up enzymes, antibodies and hormones.

In a cup of cooked long grain white rice, that has not been enriched, the nutrition facts will be less impressive than that of brown rice. Different brands will affect the actual nutrition facts but white rice will not offer vitamin A, vitamin C, or calcium. The amount of iron that it will supply will likely be half of what brown rice can offer, and it will have less protein than brown rice.

Brown rice offers six times as much vitamin B1 (thiamine), three times as much vitamin B2 (riboflavin), five times as much vitamin B3 (niacin), twice as much vitamin B6, twice as much vitamin B9 (folate) as white rice and offers such nutrients as vitamin K and betaine that white rice does not. Both rices offer the same amount of vitamin E and choline.

Brown rice also contains nutrients like magnesium, manganese, and zinc. Manganese is an essential cofactor in a number of enzymes important in energy production and antioxidant defenses. White rice has reduced levels of these nutrients.

In the United States, the greatest amount of rice consumed is white rice. During processing, vitamin B1 (thiamine), vitamin B3 (niacin), and iron are lost but then added again later. This is what gives most American rice the label of "enriched" rice. However, even when white rice is enriched it does not reach the nutrient content of brown rice, which also has four times as much fiber."

Read the whole thing... Oh! And brown rice can be found online and ships very well.

Best wishes!

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