I know, I know. Rice - bad. White food - bad. Starches - bad. Carbohydrates are the devil's macro. BUT ...
"An undergraduate student at the College of Chemical Sciences in Sri Lanka and his mentor have been tinkering with a new way to cook rice that can reduce its calories by as much as 50 percent and even offer a few other added health benefits. The ingenious method, which at its core is just a simple manipulation of chemistry, involves only a couple easy steps in practice.
'What we did is cook the rice as you normally do, but when the water is boiling, before adding the raw rice, we added coconut oil—about 3 percent of the weight of the rice you're going to cook,' said Sudhair James, who presented his preliminary research at National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) on Monday. 'After it was ready, we let it cool in the refrigerator for about 12 hours. That's it.'"
It looks like they've only reduced the caloric content by about 10% for the least healthful (I'm assuming white) varieties, but they believe the percentage will be a lot higher in the more healthful varieties. They are basically creating a greater amount of resistant starch, which we can't digest. But that's still something.
Submitted August 20, 2015 at 09:01PM by spitfyre6 http://ift.tt/1JlGw0i keto
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