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Why would life be so easy if rice had protein?
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Rice is dirt cheap, so if it had protein, you could easily hit your daily protein goals without needing eggs, meat, or supplements.
To add to this, rice was the main crop (along with wheat, but that came later) for ancient Humanity. If Rice had protein, life would have been set to Easy Mode for a vast portion of history.
EDIT: what can of worms did I just open??
rice has protein you gets.
And my understanding is that it is an incomplete protein, lacking 2 amino acids we need for full health. Beans typically supply the missing amino acids - thus beans and rice being subsistence staples in many cultures worldwide.
Not my area of expertise, but information I have heard from multiple sources like dieticians, chefs, and anthropologists.
Yup. And even if it was a complete protein it still has very little quanity overall.
The idea that this isn’t obvious to some people, by say, checking the label, or doing a quick search, is baffling
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He’s ahead of his time fuck google.
You made me hear it for a second. Peong, tong, prrrt, peaung, plonk...
Upvoted for still using Ask Jeeves
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I know what this is and I feel so targeted
dude doesn't even know about altavista
You can however go a long time on brown rice, not on white, because most of the micronutrients are in the husk that's removed.
Same with wheat and oats actually, whole grains are closer to sufficient alone, though a few pulses help a lot.
Isn't brown rice had some kind of chemical, that decreases the absorption of the nutritions ?
Phytic acid - but that's only a concern if one has the diet of a 3 year old addicted to chicken tenders.
The whole concern with anti-nutrients are blown out of proportion by min-maxing gym bros.
Eat a varied diet and you'll be fine.
Also if my memory isn't garbage there was a whole mess a long time ago where poor farmers in China were getting sick and dying because their diet was almost entirely white rice and they were missing crucial vitamins in their diet
A similar thing happened in the US which led to bread being enriched with yeast extract and later niacin
POW in enemy camps would get deficiency diseases because they were only fed white rice
I wish there was an RPG that had rice as a healthy recovery item. But it only recovers your health up to 75%, no matter how many you use up.
Well, it has all the proteins you need, just in the wrong amounts, leaving you deficient in 2 if you eat just enough calories to survive. If you ate enough rice... as in, overate, you could get enough protein. So, the games are accurate I eat so much in video games lmao. Make a giant stack of 150 rice and eat it every few minutes.
“You consume 1 Rice of Sufficient Recovery and Mild Sustenance”
Specifically black beans and brown rice.
So Brazilians are the master race.
Now I know why I crave rice and beans. I thought they were just tasty together.
In my side of the world (Asia) it's rice and lentils that you can find among most cultures and has all necessary amino acids for creating proteins
Very true. If I were to be more broadly correct I should have said legumes rather than beans. Thank you for catching that.
And a LOT of carbs. So you can't really eat it for the protein without throwing off your macros significantly.
It is a carb. So yeah. Everyone above my comment is saying it has NO protein when it has a respectable amount for a grain.
You’re smart enough to know what they meant, no need to play dumb.
They’re not saying “zero” protein, just that it doesn’t have enough to be a meaningful source of protein.
1000 calories of rice has about 1/3 of your recommended daily allowance of protein. Seems meaningful to me.
so does saliva
how do you not understand what people mean three comments down?
I can't respect an Ork with improper spelling of "Gitz."
How many grams of rice would I need to eat to hit 50% of my 175g protein goal?
Brawndo has electrolytes. It’s what plants crave.
Dude we're living Idiocracy, UFC fights on the Whitehouse lawn next year. No joke.
Can of worms? Yes, that would give you protein, nice.
i mean yeah that might be the easiest early civ combo. you gotta use the worms to catch the fish anyway just eat em both.
It would be easy until there were a million people per square kilometer and young people couldn't afford to buy their own grass hut.
Maybe they should try pulling themselves up by the sandals!!
these kids should pull themselves up by their loincloths
But dad! Great grandpa uggigug only afforded his house because his dad owned the ziggurat!
It's my understanding that the first rice was dryed and used as a method to start drying fish.
Eventually for reason I'm not sure of, people started eating the rice along with the fish
Damn, one of humanity’s first inventions was “put it in rice”.
Time traveler got his brand new iPhone 2742 wet and bad to teach the locals
If I recall correctly, "Put it in rice" is older than homosapians.
Someone else has me questioning my knowledge about the history of rice.
It's funny what you'll put in your mouth when you get desperate enough. Watching animals has always been a great indicator of what we can or can't eat. It doesn't always work out, of course.
A general guide line is if animals eat it
Then you can put it's juice on your tongue or lips. It it dosent cause pain or numbness after half hour
Then it's probably safe to consume a small amount of
There is a method I saw that would allow you to check plants for poison reliably in a survival book. Basically, slowly expose yourself to tiny amounts. There are exceptions that might still kill you, but most poisons would give a tingle or something long before you got critically ill. Still, look it up and stay safe.
You just said the same thing but less eloquently.
Your just being rude for no reason.
This discussion always prompts me to wonder about extremely poisonous food if not prepared hyper specifically.
Like, what's the kill count on fugu before they finally found the part that isn't deadly to eat?
"Liver, ovaries, and skin" are where the toxins are mostly concentrated at. So, feed different bits to pets, figure out which parts made the pets sick, don't eat that.
I wager more deaths would come from "that guy ate the fish, means I should be good" and not knowing that certain parts are to be avoided.
You are thinking of the origins of sushi. Fish was pickled in salt and rice to ferment (and preserve) it, this is eaten all over South East Asia. Eventually some people in Japan started eating the fermented fishy salt rice (instead of throwing it away), and sushi was born. Vinegar was added after a while and it became something I could imagine trying.
Rice has been eaten as a grain for a long, long while.
Don't need to talk about it as if it is history lol. Rice still IS the primary carb in Asia, which is like, you know, around 50% of humanity's population?
Worms, ironically, have plenty of protein
the reddit can of worms filled with every intelligent person on the internet who specializes in the exact field you ever talk about bud.
edit: I was responding to his edit thanks don't kill me on REDDIT
Rice was not the main crop for ancient humanity. It takes water and a lot of effort to grow. Milet, buckwheat, barley, wheat were the main grains before rice. Rice only became common place when improved irrigation techniques were discovered
Rice doesn't require more effort and water (Rice paddies), but with them it becomes a significantly more efficient crop.
To add: It's because weeds and pests won't survive well underwater.
I'm sure a can of worms counts as protein.
Rice do have some minimal protein, mostly from insect that got crushed during the cleaning process
Thank you, cursed details of life goblin, what would we ever do without you?
Live in blissful ignorance?
That, we would do exactly that.
Hey man, I didn't stop eating hotdogs when I heard there was an FDA permissible percentage of earthworm meat in them! I did slow down on 'em after learning that was an urban myth, though... One day you think "hey, my American sausage has character!" And then you come to grow up a little, and realize you were just another dumb kid runnin' on placebo worm meat.
Another CDoL Goblin! How delightful! No, I didn’t know that!
Marshmallows probably have more pig feet and cow tongues in them than hotdogs.
THE MORE YOU KNOW 🌠
Why would there be hotdogs in marshmallows
In the hotdog<>marshmallow venn diagram, pig feet and cow tongues are in the middle.
I just learned this and I'm gonna be honest. I'm not gonna stop eating hot dogs.
The pistachios that are bitter are that way either due to insect feces inside the nut or dead insects that roasted in the pistachio.
Rice is about 5% protein by weight, none of it from insects.
Most plants have some protein, some even have quote a lot, it just usually not a complete form of it for humans.
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That would be 37 seconds ago.
Did you know that over time, poop molecules will escape your toilet getting aerosoled as you flush and you end up with trace amounts of poop everywhere in your bathroom? :D
Not if I exclusively flush while sitting down while being fat enough to cover the entire opening!!!! Checkmate, atheists
Y'all ain't washing your rice, or...
This is so false I can't even
Rice does have protein though. Not as much a wheat, but some. Around 4g per cup.
It’s low volume per calorie and requires something like beans to complete the proteins to be useful to us.
It’s still something, but not a very good protein source.
Complete protein as the public understands it is a myth. Yes, some foods have higher content of certain amino acids and lower of others, but that doesn't make them useless to us, and it's pretty difficult to accidentally be protein deficient, even on a full vegan diet.
Beans. You’re welcome
But if so it would probably not gonna be that cheap.
Why is rice so cheap when it looks so labor intensive to harvest?
It's also highly hyperglycemic, that's why hard core lifters prefer it. (white rice, at least)
Because they burn all their glucose in exercise so they can get it back quickly without having to digest a disaccharide down to a monosacharide that is glucose.
If rice already had protein in it, it would be a miracle food for athletes. It actually does have some, not as much as pasta per calorie though, but the carbs digest quicker.
That and if you cook it in a broth it adds extra protein to it.
Okay but wouldn't rice be expensive if it had protein
So quinoa does have the protein you need but is ~10x more expensive per calorie. Soy is about twice as expensive and also has the protein you need so mix it with rice for some good macros. Still need a varied diet for all the micronutrients though.
But rice has protein. Not the same amount as meat or eggs, and if you're bodybuilding you can't do it on rice alone, but it is still a protein intake. And so are peas and lentils, which also happen to be cheap af.
Rice is 7% protein by nutrient composition. Which is actually pretty decent. In fact people have lead perfectly healthy and athletic lives on diets that were as low as 3% protein, Rural Papua New Guinean people for example.
You do not need meat eggs or supplements to meet your daily protein goals.
Source: the world health organization
Add beans to your rice and both will have all 9 essential amino acids forming a complete protein.
This sounds like a video game power up. If you collect all 9 super amino acids you’ll be able to get a complete master protein.
The master protein results in taking a nice fat shit.
You son of a bitch, I'M IN
You may be, but the master protein is out. That's the issue.
Just eat it after its out and just like that you created your own infinite master protein supply.
One time I was volunteering in central America for this charity that didn't have any money so we were all eating just white rice and black beans for three meals a day (with eggs for breakfast). After a few weeks my shits became massive and soft and gray. I wasnt the only one.
It would also need some fibre
That would be the dietary fibre DLC
Super Sonic type shit
Yes but which beans?
Black beans, kidney beans or lentils. Anything high in lysine.
Omg, I’ve been taking that as a supplement for cold sores, you just changed my life. Thank you.
This guy cooties
If you're taking it for that, you should keep taking the supplement. It takes a cup of beans to give you 55% (ish) of your recommended daily intake (which is a pretty flexible amount) for lysine, vs just nuking it with your supplement, which should be giving you 100+% in one or two pills.
This is why I always get black beans with my burritos lol
It’s less authentic, but it’s healthier.
Why are we saying that burritos with beans are less authentic?
Typically people associate Mexican cuisine with pinto, but a quick search says that south Mexico uses a lot more black beans. Both originated from basically the same area. While certainly less usual in north Mexico and southwest US, I would not call black beans unauthentic. Sour cream is less authentic and LORD knows I’m keeping that in my burrito.
I just looked it up, pinto beans and black beans have similar amounts of lysine. I'm not sure why people think black beans are healthier, it does look like they have more fiber.
Just don't feed it to the dinosaurs.
Red beans. Red beans and rice is a staple dish in the american south. Why? Because it was fed to slaves and now it's "tradition". Between the beans and the rice you have a significant amount of sugar as well as all the essential amino acids. Additionally slavers would feed the slaves dry rice, so it would plump up in their belly, making them feel full.
I would less call it "tradition" and more call it "cultural cuisine" after a certain point.The crazy thing is that these "southern" foods developed by slaves and their ancestors now are being looked at as some of the most nutrients dense foods you can get nowadays.
West African slaves used their knowledge of the Bamara Groundnut and created boiled peanuts as well as bringing over Okra and creating fried Okra. These foods are both considered southern staples today.
Is there something that's not beans that could do that if added to rice?
Probably nuts. I hate beans, so the notion of a bowl full of rice and peanut butter has a certain appeal to me. Probably covers a lot of nutritional bases, honestly.
Hmm, so the rice cakes and peanut butter I eat all the time as snacks would count as this? Nice.
Peanut butter is pretty solid on its own. Rice cakes are pretty shallow but a good vehicle for PB.
A solid healthy snack.
Yeah the rice cakes are pretty much a peanut butter delivery device.
Imma say you probably lose a bit in the conversion to a ‘cake’, but yeah that’s probably a pretty healthy snack.
The only ingredient in them is puffed rice and sesame seeds. The only other thing in the peanut butter is salt.
Doesn't matter anyway nothings gonna stop me snacking on them.
Peanuts are legumes (beans), not nuts
Nuts just have complete proteins on their own. I don’t think they have an excess of the amino acids needed for the rice proteins. Not much at least
Animal products of course are complete proteins on their own so you don't even need the rice. But in terms of cheap vegetarian staples that provide the amino acid that rice is missing (lysine), it's mostly beans and bean-like things (peanuts, peas, lentils, and other legumes).
The general rule of thumb is that grain + legume = complete protein. Obviously there are exceptions in both directions - soy is a complete protein, and I'm sure there are combinations of the two that wouldn't give you a complete protein. So, likely any legume would do the trick here.
Tons of things, but its almost impossible to not meet your amino acid needs, even on a very restricted diet, so its not really worth concerning yourself with
NGL I've really tried to make beans work but the farts are unironically too much
They get better if you eat them more often.
Rice does already have all 9 essential amino acids. It is a little low in some though so mixing with beans isn't a bad idea.
Rice has protein lol
Edit: yes it has enough protein for you to have enough protein. No you don’t need to eat thousands of grams of protein a day. Yes, I’ve done tons of research on all of this.
So does chocolate, but that's not the point
A small amount. You know what they meant
Rice has a PDCAAS of about 0.5-0.6, and Beans are more varied but around 0.6-0.7… neither of which are great.
If I remember correctly, neither of them totally lack a complete protein set (of the EAAs), but are just poor sources of one or two.
While beans and rice are sufficient protein sources that you won’t show obvious deficiencies, more protein is healthier for you, and there’s mountains of longevity research supporting this.
The interesting thing is that rice gets a low PDCAAS due to low lysine content, and beans due to low methionine. If you mix them you get an more balanced amino acid profile and an higher PDCAAS.
TIL PDCAAS isn't just about digestibility. I looked it up and **Beans+Rice sits at about 0.8 when eaten together,** presumably because, as you say, the complimentary amino acid profiles. Cheers :)
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gaining muscle would be incredibly cheap if rice had protein in it
May I introduce you to beans
Can confirm, ate tuna and beans yesterday, hours later I ate some ice cream, for about 2 hours I almost suffocated my friend and myself with pungent, loud, disgustingly smelly lingering farts.
If I ruined your day, You're not ready for beans
cook the beans before eating them!
I ate the Rio Mare mexican salad, I suppose it's as good as premade beans get considering its in a tin can
Soaking 8-24hrs before cooking if you got them dried should help.
Also if you eat a lot of fiber particularly from beans daily, eventually your microbiome adjusts and produces less gas. Also the negative smell for your farts was likely mostly from the Tuna and/or ice cream.
Pressure cooking them also renders them more easily digestible rather than boiling i hear
Be careful not to eat too much tuna (really any fish) as it can bioaccumulate mercury and arsenic. (Those are bad for humans.)
I am aware of mercury poisoning, don't worry, it's top shelf fish, and I watched the House episode recently haha, also not a fish overenjoyer, thank you regardless, it's thoughtful from You and that makes You awesome.
Gaining muscle is incredibly cheap already 25€/KG of whey powder
Thats 1,25€ per shake of 50g or under 5 bucks for your daily intake
Lentils, beans and shit is even cheaper and some casein in the evening like cottage cheese or greek yogurt gets you fed incredibly well
I'm crrently very into fitness culture and I believe I understand the joke. when people are trying to get shredded, they primarily eat chicken and rice to mantain a low body fat percentage for their cut. cicken has a lot of protein and is a lean meat, rice is very lean. if rice had protein, it would be easy to eat a lot of because it's so lean and your protein intake would keep your muscles healthy and developing. cuts can make it more difficult to gain muscle because you have less energy when you aren't eating as many calories. if rice had protein, you could eat it and stay lean while gaining muscle
Shredded with rice? No way lol They eat rice when they're bulking cause its easy calories + carbs for all the energy required in the gym
Bodybuilders absolutely eat white rice while cutting... Only deep into a diet would they cut out rice and replace it with vegetables
i suppose regardless it makes sense then because when you're cutting it's lean and easy energy
and when bulking, it would improve muscle growth from the hypothetical protein
You typically eat rice when you cut too, just less of it
Rice is a high-carb food...
Carbs are not inherently bad. The people on this earth who live the longest happen to eat around 65% carbs or more.
It's not as simple as more carbs == better, but point is; carbs aren't the boogeyman podcaster bros make them out to be.
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You want protein? Eat your rice with beans.
This whole thread is off on some overly simplified goofball health goop. Pretty much every food has a smattering of amino acids (proteins), a few carbs, and some fatty acids thrown in.
Even the purest meat will contain, along with a complete assortment of amino acids (proteins), a whole series of triglycerides and free-palmetic acids (fat), and some loose glucose and some interstitial glycogen (carbs). Similarly, rice will have some free fatty acids (about 0.5 grams per cup for white rice), a lot of disaccharides and poly saccharides, and every essential amino except lysine. This goes for everything we call “food” - even if it’s an isolated supplement - because even then it will have crushed bug bits and bacteria in it - so it will still contain all 3 macros (4 if you consider that alcohol/ethanol contains calories - and any anaerobic metabolism from sugar and yeast is still measurable, albeit extremely small, in everything)
Stop trying to be reasonable! This is reddit god damn it, you have to show your expertise in topics you clearly don't have any. So your down to earth comment isn't welcome here.
Rice + bean = full protein
bro i’m sorry but you dumb as hell 😭
I feel like the people who ask on here are either very young or not very intuitive
It's just people karma-farming
Asians eat lots of rice, guy in pic is asian, bro would be jacked, am saying this as Asian
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Too bad it costs several times more.
Rice does have protein, but I assume this is suggesting what would happen if rice was a high-protein staple, along the lines of legumes. Legumes have high protein die to their ability to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere, but this is a very energetically expensive thing for legumes to do.
If rice could do the same, and could fix nitrogen, it wouldn't be as productive as it is, due to energy needs of nitrogen fixing Simply put, there are important trade-offs here.
Bro. Really?
90% of proteins come from animals.
I said 90%, not all. Settle down.
But a lot of the non-animal proteins are simply not as useful as rice.
Rice is a borderline miracle crop. Rice is a big reason China is so big. You can just eat it of course, but you can also make alcohol out of it. Or flour. With flour you can make breads. Rice cakes anyway. It store practically forever as long as you keep but dry, but with water, you can make it soft enough babies, and the elderly, can eat with no teeth. Rice has almost everything you need to survive on indefinitely.
If you added protein to it, rice would actually be a miracle crop. One of the biggest issues with protein is that it spoils so readily. Rice lasts months, even years. Most proteins have a shelf life of a few days. Cheeses can last months or years, but you cant live on cheese. You can live on rice and cheese though. Imagine if you didnt need the cheese.
Like 2/3rds of the worlds population eats rice
We're poor, basically.
rice is cheap, rice has a lot of calories, if you're poor or living paycheck to paycheck you could live off rice almost exclusively, with maybe multivitamin gummies every morning
Have you really never seen Rice prices vs the stuff that contains protein in your supermarket?
Cook your rice on chicken broth it gives a little of protein
Rice contains protein.
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Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat 2,000 of something - Mitch Hedberg
Asians and South Americans towering over Swedes in an alternative universe where they’re ancestors had access to better nutrition for thousands of years lol
Rice does have protein
rice is a staple food in most asian countries, almost every meal consists of rice in countries like india and china, also rice is very cheap and easy to make, and goes along with alot of things, so if rice had protein, we wouldnt have to worry about protein intake
Sushi would be so much greater than it is already bro! I love my sushi (salmon nigiri is my goat sushi) and the rice is just 👌
Cook it in bone broth ;)
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