Is micro rice evil?

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There are no E numbers or bad things in the ingredients list but I can't help but feel that they've done something to it.

What do people think? OK or not OK for toddlers?

dont know if it is ok but sometimes have used it for ds to do a lunch thats warm but doesnt take long...so who knows..lol

yes, of course it's evil
get yourself to Kmart and buy a rice cooker ffs

Well I use Uncle Ben's Express Long Grain Rice all the time for dd .... 2 minutes in the microwave, no mess, no fuss - fantastic!! Obviously it's pretty expensive compared to buying a vast sack of the dried stuff ... but who cares!!

Surely everything in the microwave is techinically evil?

However tis easy, so I eat it.

/Adopts whiny tone/

But WHY is it evil? What have they done to it?

I DO cook my own rice & without fancy kitchen gadgets too might I add (actually, just about the only thing I haven't bought from Lakeland, but that's another thread entirely).

I was pondering having it on standby for my nanny (who doesn't appear to like cooking rice) but couldn't shake of the feeling of evilness about it.

Ahhh.... no idea!!! Sorry

dont know why its evil..however if you want some rice on standby you can cook it the night before and put it in fridge..only takes 2mins to heat up.

Course not evil.

I just fail to understand why anyone needs a 'convenience' version of something that is an absolute piece of p*ss to cook anyway.

I am a rice fanatic and it takes what,25 mins??
As Suzy says,you can just cook a batch and reheat.

I don't like to reheat rice, DD is very susceptible to gastroenteritis and tummy bugs.

I'm happy to cook it myself (why I feel the need to keep justifying my mummy status by repeating this I don't know), but it would be handy for my nanny who is the one who can't be arsed.

Nonetheless as nobody has pointed me in the direction of www.whymicrowavericeisevil.com I have taken the bull by the horns and emailed Uncle Bens. Because I HAVE to know now.

I don't think it is evil, the actualy rice i mean, I think the pushing it as a shiny new convenience food is taking the P. That's all.

and don't you mean Uncle Toby?
or is that just hicky WA?

hi there - just to add my tuppenceworth... I don't think it's the rice that's inherently evil, it's the microwaving. I read a site once about Russian testing of microwaves and basically it concluded that it took the "soul" outof the food. Energetically speaking, the vitamin & mineral molecules are still there but they are "empty" . Will go & try to find a site now (sorry if I've added to the quandry but the article so moved me (and made absolute sense - I work with energy) that I don't own a microwave & avoid microwaved foods.

have a look at this

sorry - meant this about the dangers of microwave cooking

SW - It's Uncle Ben's in the UK. I've just realised, do they even sell the Express Rice in Oz? I haven't looked (because, of course, I don't use it ).

Iris. Thanks! Puts my concerns with the rice into perspective!

Nonetheless, I'm still interested in the corporate Gumph that Uncle Ben/Toby will deliver about the sanctity of their micro rice.

Is it not simply pre cooked, sealed in it's bag, and you're effectively just reheating it?

Oh, not mercola again. Does that site contain every single wacky new age medical belief?

I find "instant" rice gross because a) it's not brown rice and b) they cook all the rice into goo, and they reshape it into fake rice grains. Which is a little disturbing.

Reheating (home-cooked) rice is safe, as long as you're careful about it.

hellfire, is that realy what they do with it?

I know MM's microbiologist dh says it's wrong, but I agree with you, re-heating rice in the microwave, really rice that you've knitted yourself, is fine

No no, I'm pretty sure they reshape the grains. If you look at instant rice grains up close, they have no internal structure, and they're not normal rice shapes.

Probably - but it was the best link i could find in a hurry for the formal scientific research that has been carried out on the effects of microwaves & microwaved foods on human health.

Hmm, I've done a websearch, and it looks like I was wrong: apparently instant rice is made by cooking rice, and then drying it out again. Here is a link on it.

NQC. OMG, is that what they do?? Ewww. I KNEW it was evil.

That's nearly on a par with those pre-packaged slices of 'chicken' which are transported around factories in liquid form and then reshaped.

Sorry. Crossed post. I'll go and look at your link now .

I was all excited about being right then.

NQD - Are you sure that's micro rice? It looks like they still mean rice that you cook in water, but very quickly? It's not very clear.