Microwave rice in pouch vs stove top cooked rice

[Ridethelightningbarefoot]

I have found according to the nutrition facts that pouch rice (uncle bens) has way more carbs by weight that stove top rice. For example, uncle bens is 87 carbs for around 10-11oz cooked and stove top rice is about 63carbs at the same weight cooked....what the fuck

 

[CompoundLifts31]

I have found according to the nutrition facts that pouch rice (uncle bens) has way more carbs by weight that stove top rice. For example, uncle bens is 87 carbs for around 10-11oz cooked and stove top rice is about 63carbs at the same weight cooked....what the fuck

Could the Uncle Bens be more "enriched", therefore making it more carbs?

This is a strange one [emoji23]

 

[Ridethelightningbarefoot]

Could the Uncle Bens be more "enriched", therefore making it more carbs?

This is a strange one [emoji23]

Possibly. I thought enriched had to do with the vitamin profile

 

[Mac11wildcat]

The label says 40g carbs per 140g rice. My food app says 39.9 for cooked jasmine rice per 140g

 

[MFAAS]

I have found according to the nutrition facts that pouch rice (uncle bens) has way more carbs by weight that stove top rice. For example, uncle bens is 87 carbs for around 10-11oz cooked and stove top rice is about 63carbs at the same weight cooked....what the fuck

I avoid any stuff that gets heated in plastic just due to the plethora of endocrine disruptors and carcinogens in plastics.. The EDCs maybe don't bother me as much anymore because I am on TRT, but I still avoid them whenever possible AND I have an ethical qualm with companies putting known EDCs and carcinogens in food packaging and just not giving a fuck about anybody's health simply because they CAN (since our idiot legislators are all a bunch of fucking crooked lawyers and none of them actually have a background in science to be able to make common sense laws that withstand critical thinking). The other part of my ethical qualm is the "one-time-use" containers like these that just get thrown in the garbage afterwards and contribute greatly to environmental pollution, etc. I'd rather just cook my rice on the stove-top. Someday I may get a rice cooker, we'll see though. I used to HATE making rice and I would always fuck it up (I am a really good cook so this was embarrassing as hell lol) but after many mess ups I finally got it down good and it's super easy now.

Anyway, I wrote a bigass post on EDCs if you want to check it out. Just know anything wrapped in plastic or in a "microwave-safe" plastic container is full of garbage and IMO should not be consumed.

 

[Ridethelightningbarefoot]

The label says 40g carbs per 140g rice. My food app says 39.9 for cooked jasmine rice per 140g

I couldnt trust the food app. I would look up different kinds of rice and get completely different weight to carbs. I used to use uncle bens jasmine(pounch) and currently mahatma jasmine(stove top) and the labels tell a completely different story.

 

[Mac11wildcat]

Trust whatever you like.

Basmati, jasmine, and regular white are all 38-40g/140g cooked in my app. Sounds more like an issue with your app or how you use it than what cals are in a standard unit of cooked rice.

 

[Ridethelightningbarefoot]

Trust whatever you like.

Basmati, jasmine, and regular white are all 38-40g/140g cooked in my app. Sounds more like an issue with your app or how you use it than what cals are in a standard unit of cooked rice.

Go look at the labels in the store. The app is input data from people most of the time. Most people dont even pay attention to cooked vs uncooked. I use myfitnesspal. If the manufacturer cant tell it right who is gonna be a more qualified source? I havent heard of people doing their own nutrition testing cause the would be the only source i would deem acceptable.

 

[Mac11wildcat]

Suit yourself. I would consider this minutia beceuse as long as YOU are consistent in how you manage your rice measurements it’s irrelevant. Manufactures also do not provided dry vs cooked measures on the label.

If you’d like to worry about this then take your rice, weigh it dry, cook it, weigh it cooked, multiply by g carbs on the bag divided by dry weight, and get your cals/carbs. I bet it’s close to 40/140g.

I’ll even support your quest for the answer myself next time I cook rice.

Rice has always pretty much been assumed to be 50g carbs per cooked cup barring any variation in cooking method. Not sure you need to be any more calculated than that when the elite of putting on muscle and shedding fat aren’t.

 

[Ridethelightningbarefoot]

Suit yourself. I would consider this minutia beceuse as long as YOU are consistent in how you manage your rice measurements it’s irrelevant. Manufactures also do not provided dry vs cooked measures on the label.

If you’d like to worry about this then take your rice, weigh it dry, cook it, weigh it cooked, multiply by g carbs on the bag divided by dry weight, and get your cals/carbs. I bet it’s close to 40/140g.

I’ll even support your quest for the answer myself next time I cook rice.

Rice has always pretty much been assumed to be 50g carbs per cooked cup barring any variation in cooking method. Not sure you need to be any more calculated than that when the elite of putting on muscle and shedding fat aren’t.

I did! Thats whole point of this post haha!

 

[MindlessWork]

I bought some of the Uncle Bens ready rice (jasmine) and it came out pretty darn good and has just 20mg sodium.

Nice and sticky with nutty flavor...like the regular jasmine rice.

 

[BigRed91]

There has to be something about uncle Ben's microwave rice bc it cooks too perfect I cannot cook rice that well any other way.