How To Eat to Live: Rice

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" We can shorten and destroy our lives by the way we prepare and cook the food we eat. Allah, in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad, to whom praises are due forever, taught me that all our food (not including fruits) should be cooked, and cooked until thoroughly done."

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• "...potatoes and rice are too starchy for you and me. They laden us with too much starch and fat, which are friends to diabetes.” -- Page 4, book 1 

• “If you must eat rice, please brown it thoroughly in your oven or on top of your stove with a little butter or oil to keep it from sticking.” --- Page 12, book 1

• Cereal plant

• Tropical climate

• Semi-Aquatic

• Short, Medium, Long

• Hull (husk)

• Bran

• Germ

• Endosperm

Brown rice has had only the hull removed while white rice has had everything but endosperm removed.

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“Eat rice, but do not eat the rice without washing it thoroughly until the water becomes clear as you pour it off the washed rice. And take the rice and parch it in a pan that has a little butter, vegetable oil or corn oil or olive oil in it. Keep turning the rice over in the pan and do not let it burn. Then put it into your boiler with water in it and let it boil slowly. Keep the fire low enough so that the water just pips. It does not take a lot of rapidly boiling water to cook rice. Just let it simmer on the stove until the grain of rice swells to two or three times its natural size.” -- Page 176 , book 2

• Amylose vs. Amylopectin

• More amylose = lower glycemic index

• Browning causes amylopectin to break down into amylose which is easier to digest :)

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