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black rice is good for ya.

armchair_warrior
armchair_warrior
edited November -1 in The Lounge / Random Stuff
Food scientist Dr Zhimin Xu said: "Just a spoonful of black rice bran contains more health-promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than are found in a spoonful of blueberries, but with less sugar and more fibre and vitamin E antioxidants.

http://news.scotsman.com/health/Ancient-China39s-39forbidden-rice39-set.6498074.jp

Comments

  • the0ther
    the0ther
    too bad antioxidants are not proven to improve your health...
  • modsquad2.0
    modsquad2.0
    Although anthocyanins are powerful antioxidants in vitro, it is unlikely this antioxidant property is conserved after the plant which produced the anthocyanins is consumed. As interpreted by the Linus Pauling Institute and European Food Safety Authority, dietary anthocyanins and other flavonoids have little or no direct antioxidant food value following digestion. Unlike controlled test tube conditions, the fate of anthocyanins in vivo shows they are poorly conserved (less than 5%), with most of what is absorbed existing as chemically-modified metabolites which become rapidly pissed away.