What’s Healthier RICE or WHEAT?
27th Jan 2022
Let’s differentiate between White Rice and White Flour. Hopefully, after you’ve read this you will be able to make an informed educated decision as to what is best!!
White rice has no HULL, the outer coating of rice, no BRAN, which is the next coating, and no GERM (pure carbohydrate) This makes this very high on the glycemic index at 77. One of the problems consuming white rice is you develop something called BERRI BERRI which is a Vitamin B1 deficiency. When eating white rice, you actually deplete more than B1, also, B2, B3. Beriberi is a neurological disease causing all sorts of problems with your nerves. Neuritis, so any nerve pain in your body you will want to check B1 deficiency. Will also causes edema and swelling, increase pulse rate, memory problems, all sorts of problems with blood sugars. This is why they enrich it with synthetic B1, B2, B3, Folic Acid and Iron. Basically, they take a everything out and put a little back in, but realize it is synthetic. However, it does prevent Berri Berri.
BROWN RICE – this is basically white rice with no HULLS. It does, however, have the BRAN and the HULL and is less refined making it slightly better than white rice. Nonetheless, it’s still high on the GI (glycemic index) at 68.
WILD RICE – this has the HULL, the BRAN and the GERM making it a lot more nutritious and 52 on the GI much lower than the other two.
WHITE FLOUR – they have taken out the BRAN, which is the FIBER, taken out the GERM and giving you, something called ENDO-SPERM which is a complete carbohydrate, so again, very similar to white rice as it’s 77 GI, pretty high, and without the nutrition, again this is why they enrich it with synthetic Vitamins - Iron, Folic Acid, B1, B2, B3.
WHOLE WHEAT – GI is 72. It has BRAN,
the fiber, the GERM and the carbohydrate portion. However, by
definition, you only have to have 51% of those to call it WHOLE WHEAT. Meaning
you could actually have 49% of White Flour to call it Whole Wheat, pretty
sneaky ha?
With WHEAT you have a little more Calcium, B3 and
Zinc.
With RICE you have less Calcium but more Folic Acid.
When talking about Wild Rice you are going to have more nutrition in there than white rice.
RICE has No GLUTEN
WHEAT Has GLUTEN
A large population of the planet has either a gluten allergy or gluten intolerance creating lots of digestion issues.
RICE has Phytic Acid (not in white rice) is a chelator pulling out minerals and block the absorption of minerals. It’s an anti-nutrient, however, it is a powerful antioxidant, more on that later. So certain people can take it as a supplement to help chelate or reduce iron if they have too much in the body, but it does have some interesting properties like anti-cancer properties, however, not to forget that it does tend to block minerals which could be counterproductive. Phytic Acid is in the white rice and in the wheat, but not so much in the white rice or white refined flour.
LECTINS - another compound certain people are sensitive to. It’s a protective mechanism of the seed and is in both RICE and WHEAT.
So here you have people say, “well, I’ll just eat white rice as it’s healthier. WRONG, because this will SPIKE your BLOOD SUGAR LEVELS.
SO, I’ll do the Brown Rice or Wild Rice. Still no, because if living in America over 60% of these had traces of arsenic which comes from the pesticides, chicken fertilizer as it gets into the soil. ARSENIC is a POISON.
WHEAT does not have POISON it has GLYPHOSATE, so it’s been exposed to that round of dangerous chemicals, herbicide. Hmmm…SO, which is better? ARSENIC OR GLYPHOSATE?? L
SPROUTING grains, soak or ferment them you can decrease the phytic acid and lectins.
So, weighing up the pros and cons, if we MUST
pick one it would be the WILD RICE. However, if you are on Healthy Keto
you will NOT be consuming ANY rice!!
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