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Re:Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that... by oswego on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @04:03PM (#9265540)
I can't find details on their process, but I wonder if they bothered to compare their results to hot water washing the rice prior to putting it into the boil water. I do this every time and I notice a mega amount of starch is taken away. It would be rather sad if they didn't account for this.
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Re:Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that... by Vraxx on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @04:22PM (#9265672)
I don't know for certain whether or not they accounted for it, but I'm inclined to believe that your suggestion isn't the contributing factor to the reduced calories. I've read about this effect before, except with reheated pasta instead of rice (both seem rather similar to me) and the pasta was due to the resistant starches as well. This is the article that I read it in before [0].

[0]:http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29629761

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