Brown v. White rice

[Anonymous]

I used to always make brown rice--it has more fiber and nutrients. Now my kids/teens barely eat it when I serve it, but will gobble up white rice even if prepared the same way or alongside the same dishes.

If this type of thing happened to you (kids began to reject the healthier version), how much "fight" do you put in? Should I keep making brown or just switch over to white?

[Anonymous]

I mix two boil in bags while and brown it's less offensive then a brown rice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mix two boil in bags while and brown it's less offensive then a brown rice.

Ah! Good idea

[Anonymous]

I’m of Asian decent. I find that my taste buds get tired of brown rice after several weeks. I think it’s a texture issue. It’s more grainy and not as soft. Also, do you know there are so many brands/kinds of brown rice? I had to experiment or try different kinds before I settled on one. It was the only one I really like. It’s an Asian brand. Have you changed your brand?

I suggest to switch to white for a few weeks and serve smaller portions. After that, I’ll switch again to brown rice. Basically alternate. Oh, I found that pre-soaking brown rice mitigates the grainy texture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m of Asian decent. I find that my taste buds get tired of brown rice after several weeks. I think it’s a texture issue. It’s more grainy and not as soft. Also, do you know there are so many brands/kinds of brown rice? I had to experiment or try different kinds before I settled on one. It was the only one I really like. It’s an Asian brand. Have you changed your brand?

I suggest to switch to white for a few weeks and serve smaller portions. After that, I’ll switch again to brown rice. Basically alternate. Oh, I found that pre-soaking brown rice mitigates the grainy texture.

Op here. Thank you! This is helpful! I will try a new variety (recently had brown basmati) and do some soaking.

[Anonymous]

Brown rice has more arsenic and heavy metals. Choose white rice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to always make brown rice--it has more fiber and nutrients. Now my kids/teens barely eat it when I serve it, but will gobble up white rice even if prepared the same way or alongside the same dishes.

If this type of thing happened to you (kids began to reject the healthier version), how much "fight" do you put in? Should I keep making brown or just switch over to white?

Brown rice has it's own flavor, while white rice is just a flavor delivery device, like white potatoes. Agree that I'd try brown basmati or brown jasmine rice. How are you currently preparing your brown rice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brown rice has more arsenic and heavy metals. Choose white rice.

Depends on where the brown rice is grown.

[Anonymous]

My kids only eat white jasmine rice. I just accept that they are getting the nutrient equivalent of a piece of printer paper.

[Anonymous]

Not even close. Brown is Ivy League. Congratulations !

[Anonymous]

Same OP. I’ve mostly given up and will just make white. At least it gets eaten happily. But I do make brown occasionally but will save it for more mixed dishes, like if I make rice and lentils together or arroz con pollo. Or add it to soups.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brown rice has more arsenic and heavy metals. Choose white rice.

Depends on where the brown rice is grown.

You can also reduce the arsenic level by pre and post rinsing. Also, there is decent evidence to suggest that the arsenic in brown rice is less bioavailable than that in arsenic---because, yeah, both brown and white have arsenic. Brown rice has higher levels, though.

Black and red rice have even less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids only eat white jasmine rice. I just accept that they are getting the nutrient equivalent of a piece of printer paper.

This is us too. We just do not eat it often. I have the problem with flour tortillas too.

[Anonymous]

I'm south Asian and grew up eating rice and will only eat white rice. My white hippie husband sometimes tries to get me to eat brown rice, but I will not be colonized. White rice is so much more delicious, and the billions of people on the vast continent of Asia eat it every day. Don't fear it.

[Anonymous]

The nutrition benefits/differences are so miniscule that I would just stick with the white rice.

Half the world live on white rice and they are some of the healthies people. What you put on that rice matters more than the rice itself.