Isn’t starch a carb? When you don’t rinse it you still have an amount of starch on the grains of rice.
If you don’t believe my answer, try googling it?
Sweetly it’s not about not believing you, it’s understanding the process, I’m 57 years young with many years experience of cooking. Rice contains starch and some starch gets washed away when rinsing before you cook if you rinse it then and after cooking. When you boil rice you can see starch come out of the rice. Therefore when you drain the rice you’re loosing so much starch . That would be taken into account when you see the carb etc figures of the cooked rice value on the packets. If you intend to use rice cold in a rice salad it’s advised you rinse it under cold water to cool it quickly (because rice can grow some sort of food poison bacteria especially in this weather) . Now if you watch the water as you rinse it you can see more starch come away from the rice. Now I know my carb count from normally cooked unrinsed rice works. Therefore my query on the change in carb value is valid. Your answer made me wonder if you’re understanding the process of cooking rice.
Thank you Ian , I’m ok, for certain circumstances that I have experienced over the years I let this wash over me as there can be valid reasons that we may not be aware of as to why we can see responses like this from anyone.
You are indeed washing away carbs - but they are in a layer on the outside of the grains - you aren't actually reducing its carb content, it is still about 2/3rds carbs - you just washed some of the rice away, 2/3rds of which were carbs.
Yeah I know lol but what I’m trying to get to the bottom of is whether is a significant amount . If unrinsed cooked rice carbs is significantly different to rinsed carbs then I could mean the difference of half a unit in carbs for me even if it’s a small amount. In other words if it equates 150gms of rice is lower by 6gms of carbs that’s half a unit. Thinking about it now writing that out I don’t think it would be that much
If you wash 150gm of rice you might reduce it down to maybe 140 or even a bit less - but the 140gm of rice left in the sieve will still be 2/3rds carb - there will have been some starch left in the cooking water if that was how it was prepared - it can be used as glue, like flour paste.
I’ve never noticed a significant difference between rinsed and unrinsed rice. I still base my carb counting on the dry-weighed rice.
Your rice will weigh less because you’ve washed some of it away. If you’re still eating 150g whether you wash it after cooking or not then you’re still eating the same carbs. You’ll just have more grains of rice if you counted them all in the washed plate.
I’m autistic and it’s hard to communicate in writing but my intentions are always to help people. Some members of the forum got upset at me putting the explanation of autism in my signature so I had to remove it.
@Lucyr I’m so sorry to read that Lucy. That’s shocking that you had to remove it. We are allowed to say we have Diabetes and other conditions in our signatures arnt we? Yes on the one hand you shouldn’t have to feel the need that you have to explain it but on the other hand not everyone knows what autism is and can do so your explanation would “educate” those who don’t.♀️ My daughter has severe EUPD and has her “way” with words. I always try to be mindful how I use my words and put sentences together for her but don’t always get it right . When I get it wrong and she comes out with a response that would otherwise seem awkward and uncomfortable to most I just let it was over me.
Following on from the reference to the fact that carbohydrates include a lot of different compounds, I have read that chia seeds contain a lot of carbohydrates but the majority of them are fibre which is not digested.
