Derek wrote:

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:04:01 -0700, crymad wrote:

Derek wrote:

White rice isn't bad for you, brown rice simply has more of what's good for
you.

And what is this, exactly? Fiber, I'll grant you. But everything else
looks like just quibbling over trace nothings.

Well, the unsaturated fats (which are comparable in quantity to oatmeal)
are good for lowering cholesterol.

You want to know where brown rice really shines? Manganese! One cup of
cooked brown rice provides 50% DV. Yeah, I know -- not very glamorous.
But that's verdict at this goldmine of a nutrition site I uncovered:

http://tinyurl.com/3z8ps

This site discusses health benefits and provides nutritional profiles --
in both amount and %DV -- of all the foods listed. The other notable
nutrients in brown rice are these, with their respective %DV:

selenium -- 35%
magnesium -- 26%
phosphorus -- 23%
vitamin B6 -- 22%
vitamin B3 (niacin) -- 21%
tryptophan -- 19%
dietary fiber -- 18%
vitamin B1 (thiamin) -- 17%

But these are all present in just middling amounts, nothing really to
write home about. And that just about covers it for brown rice. If you
look at the in-depth nutritional profile for brown rice, you'll see that
good fats appear to be almost nonexistent:

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?t...ofile&dbid=135

This site has a wealth of info. I spent about an hour flipping back and
forth between different foods, comparing nutritional profiles. For a
real shock, check out the one for romaine lettuce. Shoot, even 1 cup of
baked potato stands about equal to 1 cup of cooked brown rice. And
eating it isn't drudgery.

--crymad