Nutrition

This diagram shows the Healthy Eating Pyramid, built by the faculty in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.  Based on the latest science, this pyramid is a simple, trustworthy guide to choosing a healthy diet.  It shows that you should eat more foods from the bottom part of the pyramid (vegetables, fruits, and whole grains such as brown rice and oats) and less from the top (red meat, potatoes, and refined grains such as white rice, bread and pasta).

It should be noted that brown rice flour has more fiber and nutrition than white rice flour. It is used in the bread recipe illustrated in the Creative Rice Baking video.

Below is a comparison of the various flours often used in gluten free baking with (celiac-forbidden) gluten flours.

Food Composition (per 100 grams)
Source - United States Department of Agriculture

Nutrient

Units

white rice

brown rice

crude rice
bran

white all-purpose enriched bleached
wheat

whole grain wheat

oats

Proximates
Energy

kcal

366

363

316

364

339

389

Protein

g

5.95

7.23

13.35

10.33

13.70

16.89

Carbohydrate, by difference

g

80.13

76.48

49.69

76.31

72.57

66.27

Fiber, total dietary

g

2.4

4.6

21.0

2.7

12.2

10.6

Ash

g

0.61

1.54

9.98

0.47

1.60

1.72

Minerals
Calcium, Ca

mg

10

11

57

15

34

54

Iron, Fe

mg

0.35

1.98

18.54

4.64

3.88

4.7

Magnesium, Mg

mg

35

112

781

22

138

1.77

Phosphorus, P

mg

98

337

1677

108

346

523

Potassium, K

mg

76

289

1485

107

405

429

Sodium, Na

mg

0

8

5

2

5

2

Zinc, Zn

mg

0.80

2.45

6.04

0.70

2.93

3.97

Copper, Cu

mg

0.130

0.230

0.728

0.144

0.382

0.626

Manganese, Mn

mg

1.200

4.013

14.210

0.682

3.799

4.916

Selenium

mg

15.1

0

15.6

33.9

70.7

34

Vitamins
Thiamin

mg

0.138

0.443

2.753

0.785

0.447

0.78

Riboflavin

mg

0.021

0.080

0.284

0.494

0.215

0.139

Niacin

mg

2.590

6.340

33.995

5.904

6.365

0.961

Pantothenic acid

mg

0.819

1.591

7.390

0.438

1.008

1.349

Vitamin B-6

mg

0.436

0.736

4.070

0.044

0.341

0.119

Folate

mg

4

16

63

154

44

56

Vitamin E

mg

0.13

0.720

6.05

0.06

1.23

0.700

USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 12 (March 1998)
www.ars.usda.gov/nutrientdata

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