There is a way of cooking rice, which can reduce the caloric content of the product by 60%. To do this, use coconut oil.
In one Cup of cooked rice contains around 200 calories, so it’s not the most useful food for those who want to keep a slim waist. However, researchers from the College of chemical Sciences in Sri Lanka have managed to improve the cooking process of rice through small changes to the traditional recipe, which has allowed them to reduce the calorie content of this product by as much as 60%. And any difficulties in this, just have to add some amount of coconut oil into the boiling pot of rice and then let it cool down over night, as told by the researchers.
The inclusion of these two items in a traditional recipe of rice minimizes the amount of calories in the dish by 60%. And as obesity becomes a growing problem for almost all countries on our planet, then this technique will be very effective in weight loss. Especially when you consider that rice is the staple food for billions of people on your planet. It remains only to understand how the addition of coconut oil when cooking rice in such a radical way reduces its calorie content.
The answer to this question is also simple: the fat molecules of this oil penetrate into the rice during the cooking process and serve as a barrier in the gastrointestinal tract. If rice still and allow to cool for 12 hours, it forms a more resistant starch, so that the digestive enzymes is much harder to break down. That is why the calorific value of rice is reduced to a minimum. (READ MORE)