An estimated 90% of world regions consume rice.But lately the food, a carbohydrate, is considered one of dietary villains.A cup of cooked rice (pure, not counting other ingredients that can be used in its preparation, as oil and butter) has 200 calories.Most of them comes from starch, which is processed by the shaped body sugar and, if consumed in excess, stored as fat.
But what if there was a way to make healthier and less caloric rice?
Scientists from Sri Lanka Faculty of Chemistry have found a way to prepare rice
that can reduce your calories by 50%.How, you ask us?We explain: you boil water and cooking rice.But before adding rice to water, the researchers placed in liquid coconut oil (the amount of coconut oil used must be 3% by weight rice to be prepared).Once ready, the researchers leave the rice in the refrigerator for 12 hours before it to be served.
And how this training can reduce the calories?
Let's take the hands to the chemical.In foods such as corn, rice and potato there are different types of starch.Some are digested by the body, they turn into glucose and possibly fat - as explained up there.Others are more resistant and, as take
longer to be processed by your body end up being less absorbed and eliminated.That is, you end up storing less fat.
Research shows that the method of preparation of a food can change the shape of starch, making a substance that would be easily absorbed by the body into something tougher.And that's exactly what the method of preparation of rice proposes.
This happens in other foods as well.The potato, for example, it becomes easier to digest when cooked or processed pureed (sad, we know) - and therefore will more easily transform into fat.Other research has shown that cooling a vegetable soon after
cooking can make your hard starch absorption, as in the case of peas.
Rice, on receiving a lipid (coconut oil) before your cooking and be cooled immediately after the process, goes through some chemical changes that change its composition to the best (for your health).Using this method, scientists were able to reduce calories less healthy rice by 12% and healthier (the Suduru Samba) by 50%.Even with a less significant decrease, as the first case, scientists are optimistic and believe that they can transform the diet of mainly Asian countries, to this healthier habit.And of course, these methods can be extended to other carbohydrates besides rice - can you imagine a roll that has 50% less calories?
But what if there was a way to make healthier and less caloric rice?
Scientists from Sri Lanka Faculty of Chemistry have found a way to prepare rice
that can reduce your calories by 50%.How, you ask us?We explain: you boil water and cooking rice.But before adding rice to water, the researchers placed in liquid coconut oil (the amount of coconut oil used must be 3% by weight rice to be prepared).Once ready, the researchers leave the rice in the refrigerator for 12 hours before it to be served.
And how this training can reduce the calories?
Let's take the hands to the chemical.In foods such as corn, rice and potato there are different types of starch.Some are digested by the body, they turn into glucose and possibly fat - as explained up there.Others are more resistant and, as take
longer to be processed by your body end up being less absorbed and eliminated.That is, you end up storing less fat.
Research shows that the method of preparation of a food can change the shape of starch, making a substance that would be easily absorbed by the body into something tougher.And that's exactly what the method of preparation of rice proposes.
This happens in other foods as well.The potato, for example, it becomes easier to digest when cooked or processed pureed (sad, we know) - and therefore will more easily transform into fat.Other research has shown that cooling a vegetable soon after
cooking can make your hard starch absorption, as in the case of peas.
Rice, on receiving a lipid (coconut oil) before your cooking and be cooled immediately after the process, goes through some chemical changes that change its composition to the best (for your health).Using this method, scientists were able to reduce calories less healthy rice by 12% and healthier (the Suduru Samba) by 50%.Even with a less significant decrease, as the first case, scientists are optimistic and believe that they can transform the diet of mainly Asian countries, to this healthier habit.And of course, these methods can be extended to other carbohydrates besides rice - can you imagine a roll that has 50% less calories?