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ginkgo · 02-18-2010, 02:48 AM

They do sell pure fructose that is fruit sugar. Fructose has a very low glycemic index and load meaning that it enters the blood very slowly. It has a lower one than potatoes.

Steven Pratt M.D. wrote a book on the 21 healthiest foods called SuperFoods Rx.
Here they are:
apples
avocado
beans
blueberries
broccoli
dark chocolate
garlic
honey
kiwi
oats
olive oil
onions
oranges
pomegranates
pumpkin
wild salmon-- high in omega-3s
soy
spinach
tomatoes
tea
turkey
walnuts
yogurt-- I guess he chose this for the probiotics

It has the oats that you mentioned but that is the only one that starts out as a complex carb. It has a lot of great fiber in it. I count 8 fruits out of the 21. Also under each fruit he will list their sidekicks like grapefruit under oranges. Olives are a fruit. Walnuts are a hard fruit. Eight is a lot considering he is listing beverages like tea, additves like honey that is like pure sugar and garlic.

The book says that oats contain a fiber called beta glucan that the FDA says lowers bad cholesterol. It is high in minerals. Brown rice is a sidekick. Note that the difference in brown rice and white rice has nothing to do with the carbs. Almost all the carbs are in the endosperm. That is the part of the grain that is white rice. Brown rice also has the bran with lots of fiber and the rice germ with lots of nutrients like octocosonal.

So the carbs are mostly in the endoperm and that remains unchanged when they make the brown rice into white rice by grinding off the bran and germ. You can eat the white rice and then go into a health food store and buy the germ and bran. Again there is no difference in the carbs (digestable ones, not fiber) of the white or brown rice. Fruit also has fiber that is a complex carb but I do not count that since it not digested. Again the carbs in brown rice are no healthier than the carbs in the white rice.

If you feel a difference in eating brown and white rice, it is not from the carbs since they are unchanged. It is either in your mind (imagined) or due to the extra fiber and nutrients in the brown rice. The rice bran is supposed to have some very powerful anti-oxidants.

02-18-2010, 02:48 AM	#19 (permalink)
ginkgo Banned Join Date: May 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Posts: 3,747	They do sell pure fructose that is fruit sugar. Fructose has a very low glycemic index and load meaning that it enters the blood very slowly. It has a lower one than potatoes. Steven Pratt M.D. wrote a book on the 21 healthiest foods called SuperFoods Rx. Here they are: apples avocado beans blueberries broccoli dark chocolate garlic honey kiwi oats olive oil onions oranges pomegranates pumpkin wild salmon-- high in omega-3s soy spinach tomatoes tea turkey walnuts yogurt-- I guess he chose this for the probiotics It has the oats that you mentioned but that is the only one that starts out as a complex carb. It has a lot of great fiber in it. I count 8 fruits out of the 21. Also under each fruit he will list their sidekicks like grapefruit under oranges. Olives are a fruit. Walnuts are a hard fruit. Eight is a lot considering he is listing beverages like tea, additves like honey that is like pure sugar and garlic. The book says that oats contain a fiber called beta glucan that the FDA says lowers bad cholesterol. It is high in minerals. Brown rice is a sidekick. Note that the difference in brown rice and white rice has nothing to do with the carbs. Almost all the carbs are in the endosperm. That is the part of the grain that is white rice. Brown rice also has the bran with lots of fiber and the rice germ with lots of nutrients like octocosonal. So the carbs are mostly in the endoperm and that remains unchanged when they make the brown rice into white rice by grinding off the bran and germ. You can eat the white rice and then go into a health food store and buy the germ and bran. Again there is no difference in the carbs (digestable ones, not fiber) of the white or brown rice. Fruit also has fiber that is a complex carb but I do not count that since it not digested. Again the carbs in brown rice are no healthier than the carbs in the white rice. If you feel a difference in eating brown and white rice, it is not from the carbs since they are unchanged. It is either in your mind (imagined) or due to the extra fiber and nutrients in the brown rice. The rice bran is supposed to have some very powerful anti-oxidants. Last edited by ginkgo; 02-18-2010 at 03:01 AM.