Many people do not recommend eating only this kind of rice. Instead, they need to add all kinds of black rice and coarse grains to the rice, or replace it with potatoes, sweet potatoes and yams with a strong sense of fullness. Because the protein content of rice is really too high, eating rice for a long time can easily lead to obesity. Therefore, someone clearly put forward a point that it is more difficult to gain weight than hot boiled rice by cooling the freshly steamed rice before eating it. Do you think this statement is true or not?
The source of this sentence is actually in the British "Daily Mail". A study from Sri Lanka University found that many people add a spoonful of coconut oil to raw rice and water when cooking, and then put steamed white rice in the refrigerator. The calories of cold rice are reduced by half compared with those of freshly steamed white rice. However, this statement was denied by the University of Sri Lanka, who felt that there were no exact data and papers on this exploration, so whether it was true or not still needed to be studied.
Then remove the coconut oil and everyone will just say rice. If rice is eaten cold, can it really be better than white rice? It is not easy because the popularity of white rice has decreased and the calorific value has also decreased. In fact, refrigerated rice is indeed more difficult to gain weight than just steamed white rice, but the concern about the design principle has nothing to do with it, but with cassava starch contained in rice.
Since ancient times, rice, as one of the staple foods, has become the most popular food for people to fill their stomachs because of its rich cassava starch. Just steamed white rice, cassava starch structure is fresh, people swallow white rice, and the novel hot cassava starch will be converted into heat and sugar to maintain the body's operation. When the white rice is cooled, the structure of cassava starch in dinner will change. Not every kind of cassava starch can be absorbed again, but there will be cassava starch that is difficult to be absorbed and digested by people.
Refrigeration increases the amount of starch that the body cannot absorb and digest. This cassava starch is called "resistant starch". This starch will then reach the human stomach and become food for intestinal microorganisms. When microbial strains are full and help gastrointestinal peristalsis, people's metabolism may be happy. It can be said that the effect of this resistant starch is similar to dietary fiber, which can improve people's severe constipation.
Everyone has eaten fried rice with eggs, right? Everyone knows that delicious fried rice with eggs should be fried with overnight rice, right? Overnight rice itself is to put white rice in the refrigerator, and the white rice will become obviously loose in the sticky millet. Mainly because, during cold storage, rice loses water and cassava starch becomes resistant starch. The emergence of resistant starch is that white rice is getting drier and drier, egg fried rice is fried with a spoon, and millet is not easy to stick to the spoon and is very easy to be fried.
Resistant starch, also known as "aged cassava starch", can tell you intuitively that starch is aging, and you can't give enough calories to your body at first, so it is more difficult to gain weight after eating it. However, if the calorific value is not given, white rice is still used as a dinner. If you swallow the cold white rice, you can still fill your stomach, but it has no calorific value.
Although cold white rice is really good for losing weight, if you keep eating cold white rice, you may not want it. Who doesn't want to eat hot and delicious rice? Therefore, if you want to lose weight, you should lose weight in a healthy way, eat less and exercise more, or mix cereals, coarse grains and white rice and eat more soft food. After all, friends with bad stomachs are not suitable for cold rice.