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Staples such as rice and wheat are, technically, grasses.
by petecox 8y ago
Staples such as rice and wheat are, technically, grasses.
- PakG1 8y agoDon't think white rice is necessarily high fibre. I think a better option to make the point is that by this metric we should all eat celery? :)
- petecox 8y agoMy point about common grasses was if they don't supply the recommended intake of fibre, we might look to alternatives. The article mentions 'inulin' - it's a form of carbohydrate that alledgedly doesn't cause the same spike in blood sugar levels as starch. With a family history of type 2 diabetes, I have thus wondered about growing Jerusalem artichokes (sunchoke) as an alternative to potatoes.
- grondilu 8y agoOr lettuce.
- grondilu 8y agoFair enough, but there really is no need to be pedantic. In the context here, "Eating grass" had clear enough a meaning. We're not ruminants. The amount of fiber in food can't possibly be a prime criteria to assess the quality of food. Fiber is, after all, not digestible by definition. It is absurd to think that can matter much.
- CuriousSkeptic 8y agoActually, fiber is digested, just not by us, by our micro biome. Even resistant starches. It’s converted to fatty acids by the inhabitants of your colon.