Brown Rice
#128349 - 12/07/04 09:25 AM
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Meryl36
Reged: 09/03/04
Posts: 163
Loc: Dallas, Texas
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Hi,
I posted this on the eating board but wasn't able to get a response. Does anyone know if brown rice is considered a soluble fiber or insoluble fiber. I recently stoped taking Zelnorm & was looking for ways to add more insolubles to my diet. I usually cook with brown rice so but I'm sorta confused over the soluble/insoluble thing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
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Re: Brown Rice
#128351 - 12/07/04 09:32 AM
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belinda
Reged: 10/09/03
Posts: 474
Loc: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Brown rice is insoluble fibre. My last agonizing IBS attack occurred two years ago after I had just two bites of a brown rice cake. It was before I discovered Heather's website.
White rice is soluble fibre so it's safe to eat. I highly recommend basmati white rice.
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I know some people are sensitive to brown rice, but if I am very stable I can eat that as the base to my meal. I was flipping through Eating For IBS last night, and Heather has brown rice instructions in it, so I beleive she has some recipes where she uses it as a base, I am not exactly sure.
I have also heard of some that cannot completely handle it, so they mix it with white rice at first, and slowly up thier portion of brown rice.
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-Sheri
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Hi Sheri,
Thanks for the info. I guess that's what I was really wondering...could brown rice be used as a base? I've had it twice so far as my base & have had only minor rumbling in my gut so I'm going to try & stick with it for a while. I'm IBS-C so I find that if I eat too much white rice, I get major constipation! Finding the right combination of foods is proving to be very difficult for me!
thanks again
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Belinda is correct in that brown rice is an insoluble fiber.
However, it can be incorperated carefully into a meal full of soluble fiber (or take your soluble fiber suppliments before). It should not be eatten by itself or with other insoluble fiber foods.
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- Jennifer
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