Rice and Sweetness

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Rice is actually sweet. You wouldn't feel this sweetness with your tonge unless you chew just the cooked rice. Just chew and don't eat with your food. A couple of chews, you would feel the sugar component taste with your tonge. What is the quantity of sugar in a bowl of cooked rice? Science will explain. 

In simple term, our body needs energy to walk, run and move about. In metabolic term, the energy comes from sugars or blood sugar or glucose, and fiber and starches, which is the process that our body converts food and drink into energy to power the growth of tissues, organs and cells. Yet the energy shall be in balance between sugar, fiber and starches in our body, otherwise there would be excess and deficiency of the energy production of proteins for each body's function. 

Fruits, vegetables and meats, grains, wheats, cereal and diary products contain various vitamins, minerals, fiber, and sugar. So if we eat the food that has only sugar nutrition, our body is powered by just the sugar, glucoses or blood sugars. 

Rice has different varieties, and before milling process, the bran layer is the intact components of vitamins and fibers with the starchy parts. So, after milling process, that nutrient-rich components are polished away. Accordingly, only the starchy parts become the white rice that we consume. In our body metabolic process, the rice starchy parts that we consume are converted to sugar or blood sugar to fuel body's energy. This is important reason that associated with diabetes. If we eat the polished rice with nutritional foods, that would be another story. 

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