Originally Posted by em28

hey what do you guys think of uncle bens instant brown rice is it good. the ingredents are only precooked long grain parboiled brown rice thanks

Originally Posted by derekisdman

Well you should, there's nothing wrong with quick oats.

Originally Posted by sara

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Originally Posted by derekisdman

I read those before, and I posted too and still wonder this : how the GI for whole oats or chopped up quick oats are any different - Once you eat them you chew them so they are all mush anyway so how is eating mush from large pieces and small pieces any different?

Originally Posted by DeadBolt

The process in which they make oats into quick oats changes the GI. They pre cut and cook the oats so it takes less time to cook them once you get em...it takes less time to cook and less time to digest. Whole oats take much longer to digest in your system where as quick oats digest at a much faster rate.

Understand?

Originally Posted by BigDyl

Thats strange, i had an uncle named ben. He said he was a doctor, and always wanted to exmaine my private parts to make sure nothing was wrong with me. He never checked anything else though.

I didn't know he had his own brand of rice now...

Originally Posted by ReelBigFish

the oats your eating are good. As long as they dont say Quick or Instant of the containter your good.

Originally Posted by derekisdman

I understand that the instant kind are pre-cooked, but the quick kind are different than the instant. I only read that the quick type oats are broken into smaller pieces and that's the only real difference.

Originally Posted by ReelBigFish

hmm...i just always thought that old fashioned was the best way to go and all the others were a good bit faster, but i haven't looked at any gi scales lately so i'm prolly wrong. But people could certainly do a lot more worse things that instant oats. but honestly after eating O.F. for so long and trying quick ones not that long ago, it was terrible. I guess im just so use to the bigger peices.

Originally Posted by DeadBolt

You are correct my friend..they are the best route to go...and I agree the O.F. oats are much better then those little tiny pieces of the quick ones.

Originally Posted by derekisdman

All's I was really trying to figure out is if they are indeed the same and only smaller pieces, then what differene does the size make when you chew them? When you chew, regardless of size, the food gets ground up into mush anyway so it's just something I don't understand. I didn't think they were pre-cooked, but they may be, and if that was the case I can see how the GI would be affected. I eat old fashioned oats myself, i'm just trying to learn something here. That's what it's all about anyway.