White vs. brown rice: It's no contest; nutrition the easy winner.(FoodPlus)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November, 2000

Byline: Don Mauer Rice is big. In 1999, the world produced 596 million metric tons of rice. Pause for a moment and say the following words slowly: "Over a half a billion tons of rice." Virtually incomprehensible. Rice isn't big, it's huge. On average, Americans annually consume about 25 pounds of rice.

Amazingly, about one-fifth of that consumption bubbles and foams because some brewers use rice in their beer. Preparing a batch of brown rice for dinner the other night, sparked my urge to take a closer look at rice. I'm gonna guess that more folks consume white rice than brown rice, probably a lot more. Yet, from a purely nutritional perspective, the brown stuff is where it's at. If the two rices entered the boxing ring, one cup of cooked long...