Low Carb Rice Yea Right

"Curt" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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My local health food store sold me a bag of "Gao Thom Truong Xuan" brand
of Jasmine rice. The back label says it's "Thai Hom Mali Rice" or
"Milagrosa" The nutrition lable says 2 grams of carbs with 2 grams of
fiber per 110 grams of rice. This sounded a bit too good to be true so
I decided to do a little experiment. I measured my blood sugar at 85. I
ate 1 cup of rice and measured again in 45 minutes. My sugar was up to
180. Guess that was not as low carb as the package or the store keeper
said. He told me it was 'Flying off the shelf' I wonder why, what false
labeling.

I don't know. I can't imagine anyone making a false label, but I can't
imagine rice being low-carb, either. I do recall that I used to drink
jasmine tea. I love jasmine.

If the food is not working for you right now, avoid it. When you reach your
target weight, you can have it in limited quantities. This is what we all
do.

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Quoted message said:

My local health food store sold me a bag of "Gao Thom Truong Xuan" brand
of Jasmine rice. The back label says it's "Thai Hom Mali Rice" or
"Milagrosa" The nutrition lable says 2 grams of carbs with 2 grams of
fiber per 110 grams of rice. This sounded a bit too good to be true so
I decided to do a little experiment. I measured my blood sugar at 85. I
ate 1 cup of rice and measured again in 45 minutes. My sugar was up to
180. Guess that was not as low carb as the package or the store keeper
said. He told me it was 'Flying off the shelf' I wonder why, what false
labeling.

All you really did was test the glycemic index of the rice. Obviously this rice
is no better than any other. But if you mixed it with butter and cheese, the
glucose rise would have spread over a longer period and might not have hit a
high spike of 180.

:
: All you really did was test the glycemic index of the rice. Obviously this
rice
: is no better than any other. But if you mixed it with butter and cheese,
the
: glucose rise would have spread over a longer period and might not have hit
a
: high spike of 180.
:

Okay, now you're making me hungry.

Pat in TX

Curt said:

My local health food store sold me a bag of "Gao Thom Truong Xuan" brand
of Jasmine rice. The back label says it's "Thai Hom Mali Rice" or
"Milagrosa" The nutrition lable says 2 grams of carbs with 2 grams of
fiber per 110 grams of rice. This sounded a bit too good to be true so
I decided to do a little experiment. I measured my blood sugar at 85. I
ate 1 cup of rice and measured again in 45 minutes. My sugar was up to
180. Guess that was not as low carb as the package or the store keeper
said. He told me it was 'Flying off the shelf' I wonder why, what false
labeling.

I'm not quick to judge people about labels in a foreign language.

It does sound kind of unlikely, but would teh 100 grams be after the rice is
cooked and includes water?

Dunno if it relates, but some kinds of rice from Asia are supposed to be a
bit lower glycemic anyway, perhaps becasue of being pre-processed? Might be
worth checking.

Skinny

Skinny said:

Curt said:

My local health food store sold me a bag of "Gao Thom Truong Xuan" brand
of Jasmine rice. The back label says it's "Thai Hom Mali Rice" or
"Milagrosa" The nutrition lable says 2 grams of carbs with 2 grams of
fiber per 110 grams of rice. This sounded a bit too good to be true so
I decided to do a little experiment. I measured my blood sugar at 85. I
ate 1 cup of rice and measured again in 45 minutes. My sugar was up to
180. Guess that was not as low carb as the package or the store keeper
said. He told me it was 'Flying off the shelf' I wonder why, what false
labeling.

I'm not quick to judge people about labels in a foreign language.

It does sound kind of unlikely, but would teh 100 grams be after the rice is
cooked and includes water?

It sounds far beyond unlikely -- it sounds impossible.

I'm not familiar with "jasmine" rice, but 100 grams of various types
of cooked rice listed in the USDA database range from about 21 to
30 grams carb. I'm very sure there could be no miracle rice at only
2 grams (that's lower than the carb count for 100g of most low-carb
cooked vegetables) -- and if there were, it could not possibly taste
like rice.

It's a misprinted label missing a digit -- it was clearly supposed
to read twenty-something grams carb per 110 grams cooked.

--
jamie ([email hidden])

"There's a seeker born every minute."

what false

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labeling.

Until the FDA takes a stand and defines what "low-carb" actually means, even
double chocolate cake can be labeled as low-carb.
It can't be called false when there is no legal definition for the term.