The next superfood: Stabilized Rice Bran

 

Daily Health Tips August 16, 2013 Here is today's Daily Health Tip you requested!  If you'd like to forward this email, unsubscribe, or manage your subscription, click here. Today's Daily Health Tip A Closer Look at Stabilized Rice Bran by Jennifer Good    Tested by the U.S.D.A., stabilized rice bran is an extremely powerful source of vitamins and minerals, essential amino acids, Omega-3,6,9 fatty acids, and   complete soluble and insoluble fiber. Stabilized rice bran is considered by many to be one of the world's great superfoods. It's high in fiber, obviously, but also high in protein and is one of the premier sources of antioxidants -- containing over 100 of them. To better understand stabilized rice bran, it's beneficial to understand regular rice bran first. Rice bran is one of four parts in a grain of rice. It is found in the inner container of the rice seed, which contains all the natural minerals and nutrients needed for the plant to grow. The rice bran is the nutritional storehouse of the rice grain. The problem of typical rice bran is best explained by research chemist, Talwinder S. Kahlon, with USDA's Agricultural Research Service, "Rice bran, a byproduct of the milling process, contains the enzyme lipase, which rapidly degrades the oil, making the bran rancid and inedible. Thereby deactivating the lipase... Stabilized rice bran (SRB) has an estimated shelf life of about six months and could potentially be used as a food ingredient. Oil can be extracted from the bran and used as a healthful food component." Stabilized rice bran is created using a process of heating and then cooling the bran. This process has created a nutraceutical from a rice-milling by-product. Each year 63 – 76 millions tons of rice bran are produced in the world and more than 90% of the rice bran is sold cheaply as animal feed. This stabilization has created an opportunity to turn something nutritionally unusable into one of the world's most powerful superfoods. Consider some of these major health components of stabilized rice bran: Hypoallergenic protein with all essential amino acids Rich in E complex vitamins (contains the highest natural source of tocopherols and tocotrienols in nature) Rich in B complex vitamins IP6 (inositol hexaphosphate) The only source of Gamma-Oryzanol in nature Minerals (including high amounts of potassium, magnesium and manganese) and trace minerals Polyphenols, phytosterols, and sterolins (high quantities of Beta-sitosterol and Beta-sitosterolin) Mixed carotenoids, including lutein and zeaxanthin Dimethylglycine (DMG) Trimethylglycine (TMG) Lecithin (phosphatidyl choline, phosphatidyl serine) Ferulic Acid CoQ10 Squalene Alpha Lipoic Acid For more on stabilized rice bran, see how Jon Barron uses it in his Shake of the Gladiators. LET'S CONNECT       RELATED ARTICLES For Every Man Over 30 How to Prevent Alzheimer's Disease Obesity Harms Brain Skills Healthiest Cooking Oil Chart with Smoke Points Daily Natural Health Recommendations   HEALTH PODCAST Organic Food Definition and Studies Jon Barron considers recent food studies that test the organic food definition and the differences between organic and conventional food in today's featured podcast. (12:11)   JON'S BOOK Read in over 100 countries, learn the health secrets that prevent and reverse illnesses.   To better view, comment on or print this article, click here. For more great topics on natural health visit the website, JonBarron.org! Copyright © 2002-2013 The Baseline of Health Foundation - All rights reserved. - Contact Us The Baseline of Health Foundation newsletter and website are made possible by grants from Jon Barron and Baseline Nutritionals, Inc.

 

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