Why YOU Should Be Eating Wild "Rice"

I just went to Trader Joe's (that place is the best-especially for healthy eaters) to purchase a few items including brown rice, but then I noticed a bag of wild rice staring at me. I decided to pick it up and compare nutrition facts between the two whole grains...

Although eating steamed brown rice has numerous health benefits to it, another whole grain food, steamed wild rice, has even more nutritional value.When comparing the quantity of minerals, folic acid, protein, good carbohydrates, and B vitamins among brown rice & wild rice, I concurred that wild rice definitely wins! Even though 1/2 cup of cooked brown rice contains 2 grams of protein, the same amount of wild rice measures 3.3 grams! Another great fact about wild rice is that the wild rice consists of only 83 calories for 1/2 cup cooked despite the fact that it is quite high in carbohydrates since it has 17.5 grams of it.

Also, the folic acid content in wild rice surpasses brown rice by a million miles with 21.3 mcg for wild rice and a mere 3.9 mcg for brown rice. The niacin content of wild rice is also a shocker (in a good way of course), with l.06 mg for 1/2 cup cooked. Potassium packs an 83 mg punch, and zinc, which is usually available in trace amounts, registers 1.1 mg. While 1/2 cup cooked wild rice offers 1.5 grams of fiber, it contains 26 mg of magnesium, a healthy balance of B vitamins and only .3 grams of unsaturated fat. Small amounts of calcium and iron are also part of the wild rice picture. By the way, here's a shocking fun fact: Wild rice is actually a grass not rice!


*Best of All: It tastes really good & actually tastes better than brown rice!

Bon appetit ;-)