Thread: Rice Cakes, good or evil??

they are low calorie but.....

depending on the rice used and the amylose (starch) content by themselves, they are high or high-medium GI and tend to be medium to high Glycemic Load (especially the candy coated ones....like butter toffee and caramel).

So it depends on what you have them with (because that affects the overall GI of the meal) and it depends if you are counting cals or not. Nutritionally they are pretty devoid of any health benefits other than they fill the space (and provide energy, since they have cals, but they don't fill you up really).

Possibly, not bad PWO, but angel food cake would elicit a better insulin response and not taste like cardboard .

I eat organic rice cakes, generally about 30 cals each, the only reason I eat them is to have something to go with my cottage cheese.

What if I swapped them for a small sweet potato, bearing in mind my goal is to drop BF.

Thanks

Most competitive BBers use rice cakes in their comp diet.

Personally, I am not planning on giving them up.

I think the GI think is a bit of a fad diet, and when you eat carbs in combo with protein, it is going to change the GI value of most carbs from what I understand

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