Scientist have discovered a simple way to cook rice that dramatically; cut the Calories .
An undergraduate student at college of chemical science 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 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 we normally do , but when the water 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 Sudhir James , who presented his preliminary research at National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS)."After it was ready we , let it cool in the refrigerator for about 12 hours.That's it.
HOW DOES IT WORK.
Some starch are digestible starch, takes only a little time to digest ,are quickly turned into glucose and then later glycogen.Excess glycogen ends up adding to the size of our guts if we don't expend enough energy to burn it off .Other starch , meanwhile called , resistant starch take a long time for the body to process aren't converted into glucose or glycogen because we lack the ability to digest them ,and add up to fewer
calories.
A research, however , shown that it is possible to change the type of starches found in foods by modifying how they are prepared .There are observable change when certain foods are cooked in different ways.
The process of heating and cooling some vegetables, like peas and sweet potatoes , can also alter the amount of resistant or good starch.Similarly rice , depending upon the method of the preparation , undergoes observable chemical changes .Most notably , fried rice and pilaf style rice have greater proportion of resistant starch than the most commonly eaten type , steamed rice though it seem strange.
"If you can reduce the digestible starch in something like a steamed rice , you can reduce the calories," said Dr Pusphrajaha Thavarajah , a professor who supervise the research."This impact could be huge".
What they found is that by adding coconut oil or lipid ahead of cooking the rice and then , cooling it immediately after it was done ,they were able to drastically change its composition -and for better.
"The oil il interact with the starch in rice and changes its architecture."said James ."Chilling the rice then helps foster the conversion of starches.The result healthier serving even if you heat it back up."
With the better kind of cooking , the calories can be reduced by 50 to 60 percent.
Low calorie rice.
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