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The tables below include tabular lists for selected basic foods, compiled from United States Dept. of Agriculture sources.Included for each food is its weight in grams, its calories, and (also in grams,) the amount of protein, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, fat, and saturated fat. [1]
Cooked, long-grain brown rice is 70% water, 26% carbohydrates, 3% protein, and 1% fat. In a reference amount of 100 grams (3.5 oz), cooked brown rice supplies 123 calories of food energy , and is a rich source (20% or more of the Daily Value , DV) of manganese (36% DV) and moderate source (11-17% DV) of magnesium , phosphorus , niacin , and ...
Brown rice does have more fiber, fat and a touch more protein than white rice because of the way it’s processed. Whole grains are made of three parts: the germ, bran and endosperm.
With a 100-gram serving of dry buckwheat providing 1,440 kilojoules (343 kilocalories) of food energy, or 380 kJ (92 kcal) cooked, buckwheat is a rich source (20% or more of the Daily Value, DV) of protein, dietary fiber, four B vitamins (riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, Vitamin B6) and several dietary minerals, with content especially ...
A woman grinding kasha, an 18th-century drawing by J.-P. Norblin. In Polish, cooked buckwheat groats are referred to as kasza gryczana. Kasza can apply to many kinds of groats: millet (kasza jaglana), barley (kasza jęczmienna), pearl barley (kasza jęczmienna perłowa, pęczak), oats (kasza owsiana), as well as porridge made from farina (kasza manna). [4]
Soba (そば or 蕎麦, "buckwheat") are Japanese noodles made primarily from buckwheat flour, with a small amount of wheat flour mixed in. [1] It has an ashen brown color, and a slightly grainy texture. [1] The noodles are served either chilled with a dipping sauce, or hot in a noodle soup. They are used in a wide variety of dishes.
It takes less time to cook than brown rice but retains more of the vitamins than white rice. Coin-operated automated rice polishing machines, called seimaijo (精米所), for polishing brown rice, are a common sight in rural Japan. The rice polishing machines typically polish a 10 kg (22 lb) amount for 100 yen.
[9] [10] Other important components of rice include fat, fibers, and minerals, all comprising less than 1% of rice by weight. [11] The ratio of the two types of starch, linear amylose and branched amylopectin, affects cooked rice texture. Rice is mostly amylopectin, with amylose making up only 0-30% of the total starch.