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Article: White vs. brown rice: It's no contest; nutrition the easy winner.(FoodPlus)
- Article from:
- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- November 8, 2000
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Byline: Don Mauer
Rice is big.
In 1999, the world produced 596 million metric tons of rice. Pause for a moment and say the following words slowly: "Over a half a billion tons of rice."
Virtually incomprehensible.
Rice isn't big, it's huge.
On average, Americans annually consume about 25 pounds of rice. Amazingly, about one-fifth of that consumption bubbles and foams because some brewers use rice in their beer.
Preparing a batch of brown rice for dinner the other night, sparked my urge to take a closer look at rice. I'm gonna guess that more folks consume white rice than brown rice, probably a lot more.