Are you eating fewer starches to lose weight? Here is a very simple trick to drastically reduce the number of calories present in your rice by cooking it.
Gone are the days when all starches were excluded during a diet! If the quantities of rice or pasta ingested must be monitored in the context of weight loss, just like that of bread, there is no longer any question of depriving yourself of it. From now on, we are more interested in how to choose our bread and pasta to lose weight, or even how to cook pasta so that it is less caloric. If you prefer rice, which is just as easy to prepare and delicious to eat, good news: scientists from Sri Lanka have found a trick to make rice much less caloric.
Published in the scientific journal Science Alertthe 2015 study urges us to boil water in a saucepan as usual, but to add a little coconut oil before adding the rice to cook. Once the cooking time has elapsed, you should also put your rice to cool in the refrigerator before heating it again to reduce the number of calories it contains. The researchers explain that these reflexes can reduce the number of calories in rice by 50% to 60%.
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How it works ?
The study proves that this method of preparing rice can reduce the absorption of calories from rice by the body, even if you reheat your rice afterwards. In other words, it allows us to change the way we digest rice, which is usually transformed into glucose by the small intestine, before it is stored by the body in the form of fat. By being cooked in this way with coconut oil, its amount of digestible starch is reduced because the oil enters the rice during cooking and makes it invulnerable to our digestive enzymes. Some of the carbohydrates normally absorbed by the body are no longer absorbed and only pass through the intestine without turning into fat. To make the rice even less caloric, the passage in the refrigerator is also important because during this process, the digestible part of the rice starch comes out of the grains.
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How to make your rice less caloric?
For the trick to work, be sure to add the equivalent of a teaspoon of coconut oil to the water for each portion of rice cooked in the pan. Once your rice is ready, don’t forget to leave it “chill in the refrigerator for about 12 hours”. Then, all you have to do is reheat it in the microwave so that its grains regain all their softness.