Shit sucks ass. I hate it and I've been eating it for 3 years. Tried dressing that shit up every way possible, still taste like cardboard. White rice from here on till the day I die.
The GI isn't that much different between brown and white. I went through a brown rice phase too but personally don't feel white is actually all that bad. Its not overly nutrient dense but thats what oatmeal is for.
Shit sucks ass. I hate it and I've been eating it for 3 years. Tried dressing that shit up every way possible, still taste like cardboard. White rice from here on till the day I die.
You need some Asian friends. I complained about the flavor of brown and white rice in front of a few of my Asian friends a few months ago and got at really interesting response. They called me "cheap".
One of the girls offered to drive me down to their favorite Asian market and help me buy some good rice. I always bought my rice at the local grocery store in little plastic bags. She guided me to the area in the store where they had 50 kilo bags of rice cut open ready for customers to scoop out the rice they wanted. She walked from bag to bag picking up a handful, smelling it, and then moving on. She finally chose one variety of white rice and one variety of brown rice for me. I bought a kilo of each.
The rice was delicious. The difference in flavor was dramatic. The rice had a nicer aroma and the flavor matched. Are you cheap, too?
Actually, the price difference was almost nothing.
I can't do white rice, shit bloats me like crazy and that's saying a lot since I process carbs extremely well. I don't like brown rice to much either though cause I hold a lot of water from brown rice. My carbs come from bananas, apples, oats, berries, honey.
I don't mind it much. Sometimes I actually quite enjoy it. And yes, I buy good rice. It's more nutritious than white rice and a good source of fiber.
But my favorite is Basmati rice. I loooove that shit! And it is about the same on the GI as brown rice. That sticky chinese/japanese rice is short grain and is actually a lot higher than brown rice on the GI.
If you want to eat white rice, go with basmati (it's the very fragrant rice used a lot in Indian cooking), and if you don't like that or can't get it, parboiled rice (or converted rice) is actually lower GI than brown or basmati.