Nutritional Value of Corn and Rice

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Nutritional Value of Corn:
Corn or maize is one of the most popular cereals in the world. Corn forms the staple food of numerous people in different countries including, US, India, etc.

Nutrition Facts and Information about Corn: Corn is rich in phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, zinc, copper, iron and selenium. It also has small amounts of potassium.

Vitamin Content: Corn has Vitamin B (Thiamin, Vitamin B6, Niacin, Riboflavin, Folate). It has traces of Vitamin A and Vitamin E.

Calorie Content of Corn: Cereals are the prime source of calories for many people. The calorific value of most cereals lies between 330 to 350 calories per 100 gm, the calorific value of corn being 342 calories per 100 gm.

Health Benefits of Corn: There are no particular health benefits of corn, except for the fact that it provides necessary calories for daily metabolism of the body. Corn is good for skin care, boosting nervous system, digestion, and maintaining low cholesterol levels. Read more

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Nutritional Value of Rice:
Nutrition Facts and Information about Rice: Rice is a good source of proteins, phosphorus and iron. It also contains some amounts of calcium. Most of the nutrients and minerals in rice are concentrated in the outer brown layers known as husk and germs. Hence brown rice, which is rice from which only husk has been removed, is the most nutritious type of rice. Unfortunately, many consumers prefer pseudo cosmetic preferences and demand white rice or polished rice, in which the germ and bran has been removed.

Vitamin Content: Rice contains vitamin B in small quantities.

Calorific Content of Rice: There is no other food item that provides calories and energy to the world as provided by rice. It is not wrong to say that most of the people in the world as able to do their daily activities due to rice. Rice has about 345 calories per 100 g. Further, it is very easy to digest rice and hence most of these calories are absorbed by the body. How many times has it happened with you that you have eaten stomach full of rice and have felt hungry just one hour later?

Health Benefits of Rice: The nutritional value of rice makes it good for indigestion, diarrhea, dysentery, nausea, skin disorders and high blood pressure. Read more

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Binky  - Weight loss. 2010-02-04 22:55:01
Go on the Biggest Loser website and they will tell you what foods have the least calories but are the healthiest for you....
DVD  - Chairmam 2009-11-10 06:46:38
You eat rice? Condi Rice?
You are in trouble men!

Rice itself has nothing wrong, in places with more rain,
you could not have wheat. You eat rice, you have to
understand they are come from hand labor, which means one
city dweller need support of a bunch of hand labor farmers?
How? One farmer could feed at least 5-6 city-dwellers!.
That is not called economy! kids.
Farmers were doing work with less support and needs, which
means they could not create enough values in market, so
they are out! So they are poor, so they are out of cities.
No money, with small pieces of land that create almost no
values, like in the jail.
Unless they find the solutions, and the solutions not really
are in the hands of politicians, economists, bankers, nor
in the hands of uprisors.
Thomas  - 320 lb trying to loose wt 2009-10-12 21:15:05
I have been changing my diet to be more vegitarian, this has recently included corn meal mush (i like it) instead of wheat and flour based foods. I included wild and brown rice over white. Most of what I eat is kale bok choy other greens. I still have a problem with junk food. I use to be the king of junk food so it has been very hard and not as successfull as I hoped in changing my diet. Junk food is still a plague , do you have any ways to curb the junk food cravings? I have had bad habits for 20 years and I am treating this like an addiction... and any other advice.
Jerry  - Junk Food Problem 2009-11-05 15:03:35
Thomas,2 months ago I started eating non-processed foods. Lot's of fruit and vegitables. I'm down 21 pounds. I found eating lots of celery in place of junk foods or eating lots of fruit helps curve your appetite. And lots of water.
Anonymous  - Junk Food problem 2010-02-08 03:57:21
Thomas, I had problems with junk food too. I used to call myself food addict. I used to continuously think of junk food and had strong cravings specially while watching TV. But I realized that if for a week, I ate healthy food, my craving for junk food went down tremendously. I kept lots of baby carrots, fruits etc. at home and forced myself to eat them whenever I was craving for junk food. I worked hard and cooked home made food everyday (many times 2-3 times a day so that I am not bored of eating same food). I ate small portion of healthy home made ( not processed) food every two-three hours and tried to focus more on nutrition value than calories. For first few days I had strong craving for junk food, but it went down pretty fast. So, only way to come out of it is to work hard and cook fresh and healthy food everyday. Eating small meals every 2 hours helped me to shrink and have flatter belly. My husband lost 11 pounds in 2 months (without much of exercise). In my opinion, ...
Sabir  - Afghan (brown rice) 2009-10-03 16:43:01
Brown rice which is the most nutritious rice is very popular among afghan foods.
Afghans are the most rice eating people. we have a dish that is called (kabuli palaw) which is brown rice mixed with shredded carrots and raisins and cooked under high pressure,, it has an amazing taste and the combination of rice, raisin, and carrots makes it the most perfect nutritious rice ever.
This guy!  - GAINING Weight 2009-08-29 11:09:32
to gain weight you will need lots and lots of protien and lots of carbs! it will also benifit you to do squats and other leg workouts in the gym.
nzenba Mattew  - Weight lose 2009-08-27 07:56:53
i just came across this website today and I love it, I am from Nigeria and I want to lose weight, Though I have started one our exercise 4 times aweek in the morning.I am afaid that it will take time before i will lose any weight because after the exercise, we i get to my office, I will sit althrough from 9.am - 5.pm. is ts possible for me to lose weight on that and again i want you to advice me on what i should be eating.

Thanks
Nzenba Matthew
Martha Onodu  - upper arm 2009-08-27 07:30:35
My upper arm is big, what do i do to reduce them cause it is really giving me a lot of concern

Thanks
Martha Onodu
Anonymous 2009-10-01 05:20:29
go to the doctor
Paul Telfer  - arms 2009-10-07 08:13:03
Martha there many ways you can lose size from your arms the best way in my opinion is with hand held weights curls and hipper exstentions ten to fifteen reps three sets of each to start any of these weight lifting exersizes will help you do not need worry your arms will not get bigger they will tone one has to train acertain way to get big arms and tis usually only happens with a man.there are plenty of sites on the internet that can show you the proper way to do the exercises it is the kind of thing you can do while watching t.v.
TONY AZUM  - Cissus Pulpinea (Ogbonor) 2009-08-22 11:09:46
I am a nigerian and a regular user of your website. As a matter of fact,it has been of inmense benefit to me and I want to know the nutritional content and value of Cissus Pulpinea porpuarly called Ogbolor in nigeria. I always like the way you explain things. I remain grateful.
Helen akara  - Miss 2009-08-06 04:17:43
Please i want to know what i can do to reduce my belly fat.it makes me feel embarrass sometime.what can i do?
Joe Elsing 2009-08-26 20:09:00
leg lifts and crunches
charles N  - less rice 2009-09-20 18:29:18
To loose belly fat, you will need to eat less of rice and noddles. You will never go wrong with beans. Beans makes you fuller
Paul Telfer  - lose belly fat 2009-10-07 09:01:03
If you want to lose your bely fat it is going to take time. You will probably have to change your diet you won,t have to eat less food just better quality food by the way rice is not fattenning I have never seen a fat Chines. Most fat people don,t eat very often but eat a lot when the do eat thus they tend to over eat and there body will store the food in the form of fat thus eating more often but smaller meals tends to be benificial for losing weight.Don,t skip breakfast the energy that breakfast gives you will start you burning calories do not eat empty carbs white breed,piza,cake or any white flour product small amounts of pasta or potatoes only plenty of the other vegetables,very little milk replace with calcium and magnesium supplement,eat butter not margarine even rats won,t eat margarine drink plenty of watter.Stretch often gently.Don.t do ridicuously intence exercise it will just make you discouraged.Walking,swimming,riding a bike and light weight training high reps ten to f...
paroma 2009-06-07 21:11:41
Hi!
I'm Paroma. I'm 21 years old and have recently started to realize that i'm on the wrong side of the weighing scale!
I'm already 5 to 7 kg above my ideal weight and I don't feel very good about it. So, i have started walking for an hour, twice, daily.
But i don't know how much i should cut down on my diet.I'm thinking that i should bring it down to 900kcal a day. Will that be good enough? What else can i do to reduce?
I discovered this site only today, and i'm already hooked!! It is amazing what you are doing here.
It will be great if you can help me out in this...

Regards,
Paroma.
michael  - walk alot.......watch unnessassary foods 2009-07-09 16:20:09
some foods put alot of weight on you...........eat lots of cole slaw cabbage,read the benefits.amazing,and you wont gain weight....realize lots of cereal and power waters can put weight on you......good foods in excess can gain you some weight..........get your olis from...olive oil.........no mayo,unless csnola style......watch the 50 calories here and there...the more you exercisre the more you can cheat...althougseek a doctors opinion.........pushing things is dangerous.........moderation.......realize you gained weight over years...........give your self 1.5 years to take it off safely......if you crave junk..or fast food .order as usual.....once you get essence.and satisfaction throw most of it away..........
Joe Elsing 2009-08-26 20:07:15
eat upon waking in the morning to properly start your metabolism and stay away from sugar. watching what you drink is as important as watching what you eat - drink lots of water, nothing but.
re: Kirti Kumar Mandalaywala  - horrible diet 2009-03-31 09:23:41
>>Morning- 1 &
>>1/2 cups tea ( sugarfree)
>>Lunch- 1 to 1&1/2 chapatis, 1 veg subji, cooked rice & tur dal
>>Evening- 1 cup tea
>>(sugarfree)
>>Dinner- 2 cups milk with 2 chapatis added to it

Your mother is living on tea, milk, bread, some random vegetables, and beans. This is a dietary disaster and a diet change is needed. That is a massive amount of carbohydrates that only an athlete would need, and I don't see much protein in their either. Her diet needs to change to using fat as her major fuel source (calories) rather than carbohydrates in order to burn fat (once body regularly uses dietary fat as its energy source, it will more easily use body fat as energy). It sounds like she's getting around 85% calories from carbohydrates, 5% protein, and 10% fat. It needs to be closer to 35% protein, 50% fat, and 20% carbs.

At the same time her calories would be coming from more protein and fat, and less from carbs, the quantity she eats needs to come down as well. It is important to no...
Prof. Man Singh  - itemwise calrie value 2010-05-05 05:15:25
It sounds like she's getting around 85% calories from carbohydrates, 5% protein, and 10% fat. It needs to be closer to 35% protein, 50% fat, and 20% carbs.
Really it very informatory data, have you applied some chemical basis for this or the data are based on experience. I will be pleased if you could arrange some other data on other food items. I am planning to write a small article on food and work values.
Loz  - diet 2009-03-24 11:47:22
my friend is dying from obsiety and i am struggling to cope ,
please tell me what to do !
mosesravoori  - OBESITY 2009-06-12 21:28:46
Dear, Please get checked the reasons of obesity.Because they are many factors like thyroid,adrenal glands,diet etc.My advice for all this is Please use Aloe vera with Bhuamlika grinded and take the gell add with Honey and take twice after meals in Night and Before break fast regularly as a quantity of 60 ml and please do skipping and exercise without fail .Because this diet which I have given increases the digestion system.Any doubt call 9985162457-Moses
Steve Davidson  - OBESITY 2009-07-10 16:08:43
After a checkup, if it's not glandular, look hard at your diet and exercise. You will find the answer here. Not only will you improve the vehicle that's taking you around this trip, more importantly, the more healthy flow of chi (from both diet and exercise) will sharpen also your mind and spirit. Put some work in, it's important. When you can rewire your peptides for your ultimate benefit, you can realize transformation. What other pursuit could be so important? When you are bigger, you will then turn to helping the network. We are one, we're all connected. Read Michael Pollan's book "In Defense of Food" and find a group to train for a sprint triathlon and keep at it, et voila, metamorphisis; butterfly.
Joe Elsing 2009-08-26 20:10:42
ever try a 12 step program? it saved my life.
Kirti Kumar Mandalaywala  - How to reduce weight 2009-03-24 10:18:02
My mother, who is 72 years old is extremely obese and must be weighing more than 150 Kgs ( though we had no opportunity of weighing her)She is unable to walk independently and has to take support (dragging the chair) for daily morning chores. More than 95% of the time, she remains in bed. As no exercise is possible, she has not been able to reduce weight.
Her daily food intake since last 2 years consists as follows:

Morning- 1 & 1/2 cups tea ( sugarfree)
Lunch- 1 to 1&1/2 chapatis, 1 veg subji, cooked rice & tur dal
Evening- 1 cup tea (sugarfree)
Dinner- 2 cups milk with 2 chapatis added to it

Can anyone suggest me how she can reduce her weight.
mosesravoori  - OLD AGE PEOPLE 2009-06-12 21:31:10
Dera sir, Please use fermented tea for old age people it helps reduce obesity and joint pains also. The polyphenols in fermented tea helps to fight agnist the diseases
ling-ling  - Kirti Kumar Mandalaywala - How to reduce weight 2009-07-24 00:06:13
try to detoxify your grandma. even if a person eats very little, it will still be stored as fats because the body system is clogged with toxic and other poison and the body cant function properly. i tried some good detoxification in the form of powder mix with water then plenty of water to drink the whole day. toxic and poison in the body is released thru bowel movement, urine, sweat.

i was once also clogged with toxic and my system is also clogged.

light massage daily all over body maasage will help in the circulation of the blood to help it release the toxic out of the body.

i tried teas for bowel movement, but the powder mix in water is more effective to me. the powder im talking about is not a tea but combinations of fruits and other plants to give so much bowel movement
liner  - weight reduction 2009-02-16 01:44:22
I need to loose weight what are the do's and donts
crystal  - weight reduction 2009-05-06 12:06:16
for a healthy weight reduction, if you are able. . . .walk. Start out with what you can do and try to walk for an hour a day. Also, I stopped eating ALL white foods; i.e. white rice, white bread, pasteries, etc. and ALL refined food.
I eat brown or wild rice - yummy.
Also, watch your caloric intake and eats lots of fruits and veggies. I hope the best on your weight reduction.
It may take a little time, but don't give up.
Joe Elsing 2009-08-26 20:13:28
eat first thing in the morning and never at night, drink lots of water. And remember: you are what you eat.
Fliss  - THIS IS AMAZING. 2009-01-30 02:00:24
I love this website, so great! & amazing info! i want to get involved ! thanks lol x
Tuli  - ms 2008-11-07 05:41:25
Hi,
I have tis problem of chewing raw rice (white) up to 500gm every other day. Looking at the nutritional value of rice, I wonder if I have micro nutrient deficiency? and if that is the case what should I do, get supplementary? I am also on diet to maintain my weight. please assist Thanks
Estera 2008-10-10 10:36:45
There is any organic store or any mall in aNew Panvel or Kharghar that sale organic food.
If anyone knows please let me know.
thanks
Estera
preeti teotia  - is corn good for those who have high potassium con 2008-09-25 07:52:49
hiiii
myself preeti
i jst want to know is corn good for those patients whose potassium level is high.which foods come in low potassium list.and plz do tell me dat how much content of potassium in any of d product comes under dis category.
plz help me as soon as possible i'l b greatful to you.
thanx alot
Ruth  - Potassium Food 2008-09-25 22:11:06
Dear Preeti,
Dont worry about the high level potassium in ur body.We can soon reduce it by controlling our food habits.

U CAN AVOID EATING THE BELOW FOOD AS THEY HAVE HIGH POTASSIUM IN THEM(more than 450 milligrams per 1 cup)

All meats, poultry and fish are high in potassium,Apricots (fresh more so than canned),Avocado,Banana,Cantaloupe,Honeydew,Kiwi,Li ma,beans,Milk,Oranges and orange juice,Potatoes (can be reduced to moderate by soaking peeled, sliced potatoes overnight before cooking,Prunes,Spinach,Tomatoes,Vegetable juice,Winter squash

Food which has moderate potassium levels in it(125 - 225 mg per serving)
Apple juice,Asparagus,Beets,Blackberries,Broccoli,Carrot s,Cherries,Corn,Eggplant,Grapefruit,Green ,peas,Loose-leaf lettuce,Mushrooms, fresh Onions,Peach,Pears,Pineapple,Raisins,Raspberries,S trawberries,Summer squash, including zucchini,Tangerines,Watermelon

U can start eating the LOW POTASSIUM Food as below(LOW potassium (less than 125 mg per serving)
Apples,Bell peppe...
belle 2008-08-23 08:55:44
I find this website very useful too! I am doing my home econs project and it simply provides all the information i need! :D
CY  - TY 2008-08-12 05:51:58
whoa! this web is kinda useful. this project my teacher had assigned me, is giving me a headache! i've been spending 1/4 of my life searching for the right info bout corn! n e way, thanks for the web!

TYTYTYTY,
CY
Kira  - Corn. 2008-08-03 17:55:29
I like corn :)
will  - corn 2008-09-28 11:14:16
corn are not real grain its bad for health if taken more.
newby veggie  - maize for the masses 2008-08-02 18:39:18
Ceasar's army was a veggie army. Cereals provide complex sugars your body can use days later during physical activity. Of course there are proteins you can't get from carb rich veggies but if they are a large source of your calories, you will feel more energized and healthy in no time.
Love food.
T Girl  - can corn help to add weigth? 2008-07-25 10:54:11
hello am dam too thin.can corn help to add weigth and pls if not pricribe what to use.thanks
Sunshine  - Weight Gain 2008-08-11 11:54:22
Cream of Wheat prepared with milk. Eaten every day for at least 6 weeks to see the weight gain.

Another Option is to start cooking everything with cream or half and half instead of whole milk.
Living strong  - gain weight 2008-09-05 14:41:52
along w/ the cream of wheat w/ whole milk (preferably goats milk) add 1 banana, strawberries, blueberries, etc. and for lunch eat 1 avacado.
sshi  - weight gain 2008-11-29 22:20:42
hi, if u want to raise ur weight, get d jelly of cashew nut tree, and wash it it warm water and soak in plain water for a whole night , it becomes big, then mix it with sugar and swallow it , if u do it for a month u can c very visible, difference.... and have daily 2 bananas after ur meal.... check it out and tell me
will  - corn 2008-09-28 11:21:32
t girl getting more weight first you must know your body metabolism rate then your body type my advice start taking brown rice with lots of raw vegel and stir fried vegel and steam tafu and lot of nut but not peanut ok and lot of mineral water sleep early and do a little execise in the morning and your body will tell how much its want to grow,happy eating
mosesravoori  - INCREASE WEIGHT 2009-06-12 21:37:05
If you are less in weight ur absorption must be less. So please use fibre rich diet for some days to clean your digestive system. If not u can get Isabgol Husk from the market add sugar cane juice with Isabgol Husk before be at Night time ,make sure that Sugar cane juice is cleaned and fileterd many parasites enter ur system with it.After using it u can see the difference on your skin please take plenty of good water.
Anonymous 2009-07-02 06:54:34
just go and eat more and rest. sleep well and eat well.
Joe Elsing 2009-08-26 20:15:32
potatoes and pasta
harry  - gaining weight 2008-06-29 07:31:04
Can anyone suggest which all foods will provide the nutrition to gain weight.
dyna  - hello 2008-06-25 23:29:44
i think corn is good :)
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