Why it is recommended to cook rice with coconut oil!

Eat rice with 50% less calories. Researchers have concluded that preparing rice with coconut oil increases the amount resistant starch in the rice, which is indigestible for us. Means the resistant starch can not be absorbed & transformed into energy or fat, so it contains no calories.

Starch can be digestible or indigestible & rice is made up of both types. Unlike the digestible starch, resistant starch can not be broken down in the intestine where carbs are usually metabolized into simple sugar & absorbed into blood stream. Consequently, if they could transform digestible starch into resistant starch it will lower the calories count in rice.

All of this happens because coconut oil gets the starch granules in the cooking process & changes the composition, transforming it in resistant starch granules. This means that the fewer calories get absorbed into our body.