BF>>> When you mention it it did taste a bit better in Thailand then here un
BF>>> buy unpolished rice.

 CS>> unpolished rice is pretty much the difference, as well as a
 CS>> cooking style which preserves the delicate flavor.  One
 CS>> thing I found out fast is Americans mostly eat tasteless
 CS>> rice as a filler and wonder why other folks eat so much of
 CS>> it.

BK>>  How about the sucrose coating?

BK>>  Ever wonder why diabetes is epidemic in Asia?

 CS> What sucrose coating?

 I never liked rice until I tried it in Hawaii. My late wife and
 I used to eat it all the time there. Some years after I got out
 of the service, and we moved to the Toledo area, we decided to
 see if we could find the same rice here. We went to a local
 asian market, and found the same brand we used to buy there.
 Looking at the ingredients list, we found sucrose among them.
 Ever notice how the grains stick together so well? We guessed
 sucrose was the reason.

 CS> As to diabetes in Asia, I've not noted it as prevalent
 CS> except in the places where people shifted diets to a
 CS> sugar-laden one (which rice is not).

 CS> Something you know that I do not?

  Both my current wife and I lost our first spouses to
  complications of diabetes, so we are more aware of it than
  most. Googled for:

  diabetes epidemic worldwide

 Came up with a lot of hits. This one covered it pretty well.

 http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/0703eddiabetes.html



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