Cous Cous V brown rice

vibes23

Howdie,

What do people think? From what i an work out you get more cous cous for less cals then brown rice at the same cooked weight.

But i have heard cous cous aint all that good for you? ??


Anyone hear similar ?

rubadub

Cous cous is basically pasta, just tiny specs of it, I think many people presume it to be a whole grain like millet and guess it is healthier than pasta. Rice & pasta/couscous dry weight kcals are about the same. If you overcook your brown rice it could have less kcal per 100g cooked weight. Manufacturers can quote overcooked, or small portions, to make it appear low in kcal.

I try & avoid rice/noodles/pasta. I would sooner bulk dishes out with kidney beans or ice berg lettuce it is something like mince.

UnknownSpecies

Question while on the subject of rice. I cook ~500g (uncooked weight) of rice and it will usually yield ~1k (cooked weight). When I am calculating the nutritional values from the pack, how do I do it? For example, Tesco give the nutritional info per 75g but don't say if it's cooked or uncooked? It wrecks my brain!

rubadub

dorgasm wrote: »

When I am calculating the nutritional values from the pack, how do I do it?

Have a read of this thread
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=78352949

I would expect a 75g portion is uncooked, this is just common sense guessing since 75g would be a very small cooked portion weight.

If you were still unsure, say it gave per 100g weights, then you can just look at the other figures, if rice is cooked you know it will be about half water. So if it had a carbohydrate figure of say 75g per 100g then it would indicate that it must be uncooked, as its too high if 50% is to be water.