{"id":55041,"date":"2015-07-09T21:15:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55041"},"modified":"2015-07-09T21:15:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T13:15:46","slug":"up-scientist-fabricated-rice-may-be-better-than-ordinary-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/09\/up-scientist-fabricated-rice-may-be-better-than-ordinary-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"UP scientist: \u2018Fabricated\u2019 rice may be better than ordinary rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55042\" style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fake-rice1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55042\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fake-rice1.png\" alt=\"(Photo from The Citizen Daily)\" width=\"552\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fake-rice1.png 552w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fake-rice1-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo from The Citizen Daily)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 According to University of the Philippines food scientist and professor Ma. Concepcion Lizada, the controversial \u2018synthetic\u2019 rice may actually be good for consumption and may even be better alternative to ordinary rice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would rather call it fabricated rice. It\u2019s giving fabricated rice a very bad reputation,\u201d Lizada said during the Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) open forum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe actually have a commercial product now that is available widely in the market. They call it corned rice. In fact, there was a media blitz about the corned rice. It\u2019s good. I tasted it myself,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Lizada disclosed that there were even claims that fabricated or corned rice was better than ordinary rice for its low glucose content. She also explained how it was made through food extrusion technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember exclusion technology involves gelatinization and therefore, if you gelatinize your amilose to a high extent, it becomes more available and therefore the glycaemic index must have been modified somehow,\u201d Lizada said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s available. It\u2019s a good technology. The issue is just, why go through the backdoor rather than it being sold as grains rather than rice, grains made from different starch sources,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, new reports claimed that synthetic noodles were recently sold in Calinan Public Market, Davao City. Like the fake rice, the fake noodles were odorless and did not spoil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 According to University of the Philippines food scientist and professor Ma. Concepcion Lizada, the controversial \u2018synthetic\u2019 rice may &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":55042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-55041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}