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Rice Cooker can reduce carbs?

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ROE100

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Just brought a rice cooker (Kumo Ninja) and reading the details before using there was a mention that if you cook rice in this cooker it can reduce 25% of the carbs (in lab testing on white rice).

Did a serach before posting and only can across a post by @AndBreathe in the What have you eaten today? (low Carb Forum) back in Nov-23 who reported a 40% reduction in a rice cooker but couldn't see any replies to that specfic message so thought to start a new thread.

Any thoughts as in theory if you normally eat 40 carbs worth of carbs in rice in a meal a 25% reduction would then mean only 30 carbs - I not looking to reduce the carb as no issues with rice but thought it was interesting or is it just a sales pitch? Attached the details about the cooking process and the 25% reduction in the instructions.

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I just wouldn’t go near white rice personally. I Use brown basmati to be quick.
I think the sales pitch is misleading. whatever the weight of the cooked rice = that amount of carbs.
 
ROE100 said:
Just brought a rice cooker (Kumo Ninja) and reading the details before using there was a mention that if you cook rice in this cooker it can reduce 25% of the carbs (in lab testing on white rice).
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Can you cook brown rice in it? I know it can take twice as long as white rice in a normal pan but if a rice cooker can help I might well buy one.
 
Looking at the explanation, it assumes that starch is lost to the water while cooking (which is plainly obvious if you look at the colour of water used to cook rice and/or when rinsing sushi rice before cooking), whether it looses a full 25% of the available carb content (starch) or not I don't know and probably depends on the rice in question and the cooking conditions.

There may be some additional benefit from the slower cooking process too which allows more cross-linking (iirc) to occur which makes some of the starches either harder or impossible to digest thereby stopping them from being absorbed.

YMMV, can you do a controlled experiment and tell us how it works?
 
Hi
Bought an instapot with carb reducing function, interesting as using brown basmati (same amounts and other foods) on a few different approaches the carb lowering feature seemed to result in less of a spike - around 15%, but then so did prewashing the rice before "normal" cooking.
Eating carbs/protein to help rebuild lost muscle issues.
 
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