Certain health benefits of sprouted brown rice, or GABA brown have come to my attention. The health benefits may or may not be hype. But I would like to try it. There are no claims this brown rice is better in regards to blood sugar control, just long term healh benefits. My question is: Has anyone ever tasted sprouted brown rice and if so, is it bitter tasting? Can’t easily find the sprouted brown, but I found an automatic rice maker (very expensive) that makes the GABA brown rice.
Brown rice is rice is the whole or partially whole grain version of rice. As a more complex carb, it is digested slower than white rice, but all the carbs in the rice are just that “carbs” and impact your blood sugar, just over a longer time. GABA is germinated rice that initatites some enzyme conversion, reducing the carb level in the rice and increasing among other things some protein called GABA. In general, germinated grains have a low carb level than their ungerminated version, I can’t tell you how much. Some rice cookers help make GABA rice by having a setting that “activates” the brown rice by raising it to 104 deg F for two hours before cooking. Many mid-range and up from companies like Zojirushi will have these sorts of things built in.
I have had a broad range of brown rices, but not sprouted rice, so I can’t tell you whether it is bitter. You could get some of it, manually “activate” the rice, cook it normally and just see.
I just heard about GABA rice today. VERY cool! Now I am wondering really how much lower carb it can be....? But I am very interested. And it would totally be worth the investment in a GABA cooker... if it tastes good! :O) I'm curious to hear. Thanks!
I haven't done the Rice but I have done the sprouted bread before. It was pretty bg friendly as long as I watched my portions. It was my understanding that the sprouting process actually burned up a lot of the glucose. My only problem with eating it was that it did spur other carb cravings. So I don't eat it very much.
If you are looking for it to have a lower BG impact you are wasting your time. I have
ate sprouted rice and sprouted whole grain breads for years. It has more nutritional
value than the none sprouted products. You can sprout the rice yourself but you will have
to buy the raw rice, GBR is made by soaking brown rice in warm water for up to three days.
The machines only soak the rice for 2 to 3 hours and although this probably adds some nutritional value it certainly does not sprout the rice in that short time frame.People around the world have probably been eating GBR for thousands of years, what we now call GBR or GABA rice was 'discovered' in 2004, the United Nation's Year of Rice, as part of their research into rice. Since then it's become a health craze in some parts of the world.