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Why would anyone ever voluntarily eat a whole grain rice onigiri?

• bobthepanda 3y ago
  White rice has one of the highest glycemic indexes. Japan has a 12% diabetes rate, which is just above the US at 11%.
  • gnicholas 3y ago
    IIRC 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
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  • slothtrop 3y ago
    this 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    I had no idea black rice existed until you mentioned it. I imagine that this is likely the same for many others.
    • ace2358 3y ago
      Don’t forget red rice! Rice is crazy and my old ideas of wetlands and white rice have been crushed by reality.
    • fuzztester 3y ago
      Black 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 ago
      Black 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 ago
    What is gō? It is hard to Google.
    • Cpoll 3y ago