White rice has no nutritional value. The husk, which contains the vitamins and protein, has been entirely stripped, leaving only the soft kernel inside which has almost no nutrients. Thus minerals and vitamins are added back to white rice during the packaging process to make it somewhat healthy.
Opt for parboiled rice (closest to white once cooked) which is also similarly priced to white, or go wild – literally – and get what is called wild rice, which is just how rice should be. I’m also partial to black rice which can be quite more expensive for rice, but it’s really fragrant and tasty (but be careful with the water, it stains easily).
All of these have a higher protein content than white rice, lower calories, and the nutrients didn’t have to get added back in, they come from the rice itself.
I’ll be brutally honest, i eat a lot of rice and it’s by far my favorite base for dishes, but nutritional value is not what i look for in rice. I’ve eaten all sorts of rice, and while i have nothing against wild rice, brown rice or parboiled rice - in fact I liked them all just fine whenever i had them and i believe everyone should try them at least once - it’s still white jasmine and basmati rice that tastes the best to me. Probably the one i enjoy least is the short grain variant used for risotto. Ultimately it always depends on the recipe. Certain types of rice fit better to certain recipes than others.
I’ll stop eating jasmine rice when I’m dead.
I live in Vietnam. If I stop eating rice, I’ll starve 😂
There are banh mi and all kinds of noodles tho.
those noodles? you guessed it, made of rice.
Yeah that’s fine, I’m not selling black rice lol, but for athletes and other fitness hobbyists we can definitely benefit from more nutritional rice than white, which is why I posted in the physical education community 😁
That’s a good point, some people can certainly stand to benefit from more nutritional rice variants.
Same, for me basmati for biryani, pilaf type dishes. Jasmine for everyday and glutinous rice for special days.