Starch is Carbohydrate so when you wash it away, you wash away nutrients but there is more of that inside the rice. You may not want to worry much about this. However, to make milled white rice healthier and more nutritious in countries like the United States, it is required that processors enrich it with vitamins and other nutrients.
These fortifications appear as a dusty layer on the individual grains. If you want to also preserve those nutrients, washing is not for you – it is NO-NO. But if you don’t need this nutrients, probably because you are eating your rice with some rich vegetable sauce and other nutritious foods, you can wash it off.
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I’d say if your rice is a GM rice, wherein the nutrients enriched in it had been done genetically, then washing or parboiling it won’t take out the nutrients but if its the kind of enrichment that’s done by coating the rice with vitamins, then you are certainly washing off the nutrients if you wash.
However, if you bought your rice in an open market where the bag of rice had been open by the seller and some portion was sold to you, then I suggest you wash and enrich it by eating your rice with vegetables and other nutrients sources
Thank you for that contribution.
This is so interesting! It’s more of a sch than u think. Tnks for enlightening most of us on sm things we never thought of. Blz u
I prefer washing it,it is hygenic to do so
This is why we rinse rice.:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2750845/So-THAT-S-rice-taste-rubbery-Chinese-farmers-cover-entire-road-crop-dry-don-t-mind-motorists-driving-it.html
Thanks for that contribution. Like I said in the concluding part of the article too – I was my rice because I don’t know if the dust on it is due to fortification or dirt. This picture is amazing.
I like cooking with passion and wish I.had more tips on this area
Tanx
Thanks for the information. i always wash my rice because of the dust
I wash my rice b4 boiling,it is hygein to me bliss all
I wash dirty rice before cooking, but cook clean ones with out washing. “Jasmin” rice looks clean and does not need to be washed before cooking
I prefer unwashed Rich because it has Taste and smells well here in Uganda. Therefore i think for hygienic purposes i think the farmers should harvest the rich clean for some of us to keep enjoying.
It is very interesting explaination of the rice uses, but as a person I have question,#
how would people know the differences of the rice from other parts of the country that contain nutrients which is not to be wash and the rice
that has talc which you mentioned as it makes rice whiter and it is supposed to be wash away?, #because a buyer can just go and buy rice without knowing whether it is a rice that has nutrient or rice that have talc and if the cook wash it then it might be a rice contain nutrient and if not wash then it could be the rice that contain talc , #as an experts what do you think could makes differences?
I do wash my rice very well befor I cook it If H didnt wash it I will cook it for the first time and race the water then cook it again I love that
I do wash my rice very well befor I cook it If I didnt wash it for the first time. I will cook it for the first time and race the water then cook it again I love that
It is very interesting explanation for rice lovers. Thanks admin.