Rice hack to lower calories

It looks like this is old news, but I’ve only just found out about it.

Apparently you can lower the calories of rice by 60% by cooking it in the following process:

Simmer for 40mins with 1tsp coconut oil.
Cool in the fridge for 12 hours.

This causes the body to absorb less calories from the rice due to this cooking process causing around half of the rice to be indigestible causing it to just pass through the body. Without this process, the starchy carb will be broken down in the small intestine and turned to glucose then possibly stored as fat (if not used).

This news was reported in March 2015 by many sources (Daily Mail, Telegraph, BBC).

Some of the sources say that the rice will still have the same structure even if reheated, however, they warn about reheating rice that has been left at room temperature. The trick is to get it in that fridge as soon as possible!

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