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There is no feeling so reassuring in Japan as knowing I am always within a 3 minute walk of yet another tuna mayo onigiri.
by alangou 3y ago
There is no feeling so reassuring in Japan as knowing I am always within a 3 minute walk of yet another tuna mayo onigiri.
- boringg 3y agoDid you ever see whole grain rice onigiri or was it always white short grain rice? I feel like whole grain would be blasphemy over there.
- LiquidSky 3y agoWhy would anyone ever voluntarily eat a whole grain rice onigiri?
- bobthepanda 3y agoWhite rice has one of the highest glycemic indexes. Japan has a 12% diabetes rate, which is just above the US at 11%.
- gnicholas 3y agoIIRC sticky rice is the worst among white rices. I find it tasty but try to eat basmati most of the time.
- dr-detroit 3y ago[dead]
- slothtrop 3y agothis says it's 7% in Japan: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/diabetes-rates-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/diabetes-... , but I found another source that says 12% for 2016. Diabetes scales with obesity and age. Japan has a very old population, but less obesity than the US. White rice despite its glycemic index is not super high calorie. If it's a contributing favor, it's because of weight-gain, not glycemic index. edit: better source: https://www.diabetesatlas.org/data/en/country/101/jp.html https://www.diabetesatlas.org/data/en/country/101/jp.html, https://www.diabetesatlas.org/data/en/country/211/us.html https://www.diabetesatlas.org/data/en/country/211/us.html There's more diabetes in the US.
- tenpies 3y ago> White rice has one of the highest glycemic indexes. This is correct, but do keep in mind the impact that cooling down has on starches. A fresh bowl of rice is very high, but cool it for a couple of hours and the GI drops considerably. Cool it overnight and it drops even more. Onigiri is usually in the cooled down to over-night range. This never makes rice particularly good from a GI perspective, but preparation is a considerable factor. --- One study, but this is fairly well reproduced: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26693746 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26693746 And a more general write up: https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/carbohydrates-and-diabetes/carbs-and-cooking https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/car...
- riversflow 3y agoI don’t get that. I would say the same about white rice. Why would I ever eat it when I could be eating delicious black rice? And before you start, I eat a gō of rice virtually every day. I’m genuinely confused about the popularity of white rice.
- Modified3019 3y agoI had no idea black rice existed until you mentioned it. I imagine that this is likely the same for many others.
- ace2358 3y agoDon’t forget red rice! Rice is crazy and my old ideas of wetlands and white rice have been crushed by reality.
- fuzztester 3y agoBlack rice exists, I've seen it in a shop of a friend, though not tasted it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_rice https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_rice There are also other food items which have versions that are black in colour, some of which could be not naturally, but by processing them in some way, for example, black garlic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_garlic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_garlic Googling your favorite food name with "black" as a prefix could be interesting. ChatGPT, generate for me a program to automate this, given a list of favorite foods.
- milesvp 3y agoBlack sticky rice is a favorite dessert of mine. I always have to resist it when I see it on a menu at a Thai restaurant.
- smugma 3y agoWhat is gō? It is hard to Google.
- Cpoll 3y ago
- skhr0680 3y agoIt's not blasphemy per se. Wholegrain rice is popular for health reasons, and convenience stores carry wholegrain onigiri sometimes
- wahnfrieden 3y agoWhole grain rice and rice with beans in it are very popular in Japan in recent years with mainstream health conscious consumers (Similarly plant based food has also become much more available in cities) However the health benefits of brown rice are questionable when the outer layer retains pesticides or other toxins
- kurthr 3y agoThe onigiri would not stick together. The short grain rice has lots of amylopectin, while whole grain, brown, and basmati have much less. It would fall apart and be very difficult to eat.
- SECProto 3y agoThe amylopectin details may be right, but the rest is wrong. Conbini's sell brown rice onigiri (look for 玄米), it's just usually a very limited selection. They don't fall apart, and you eat them the same as normal onigiri.
- kencausey 3y agoHave you checked the list of ingredients to check for a binder of some sort?
- kencausey 3y agoAfter posting this comment I then decided to look into it (in my usual way) and just looking for homemade brown rice onigiri what I found was that at least the couple of recipes I looked at used short grain brown rice (which I did not even realize existed) and/or recommended using more water than usual.
- SECProto 3y agoYup, if you want to do it at home, make it a little bit mushier. I don't like it, but it is very doable. Commercially they may use a binder, I don't know, I just wanted to make sure people knew they're available!
- boringg 3y agoI did it tonight and when i picked up the rice i used wet fingers to give it just a touch more binding ability. Worked well. Kids loved it. Am excited to eat the brown rice onigiri tomorrow.
- Hikikomori 3y agoHad so many tuna mayo onigiri from 7/11 for breakfast in Japan.
- snvzz 3y ago3 minute and a little over 100 yen.
- glandium 3y agoYou've never been to the country side.
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