... which is a better bodybuilder carb? Sweet Potatoes, or Brown Long Grain Rice? Which stands better on the ol GI scale, and which one gets along better with your blood sugar?

I would much rather eat Sweet Potatoes, and I usually mix things up between the two of them quite often, but I have heard from a few folks that rice isnt all that its cracked up to be? What do you guys think is the ideal carb for a bodybuilder to take. Who already takes in very few carbs, and who takes in ZERO high GI carbs except for when training or after. What do you think is the better carb? I already know what I like as far as better tasting goes. But if SP's are that much better than rice, I am thinking I am going to ditch the rice all together. Thoughts???

I don't eat potatoes, so I'm just going to voucher for brown rice :)

I eat it literally every day, often times at every non-breakfast meal. I never get sick of it, don't ask me why...

Fills me up, gives energy for a while, mixes great with any meat and vegetable... what's not to love???

Both Sweet Potatoes and Brown Rice are low GI carb sources.

I don't eat potatoes, so I'm just going to voucher for brown rice :)

I eat it literally every day, often times at every non-breakfast meal. I never get sick of it, don't ask me why...

Fills me up, gives energy for a while, mixes great with any meat and vegetable... what's not to love???



Hell yeah! Brown rice RULES! Add a little soy sauce to it and dig in. Sweet potatoes are good as well, and IMHO, regular white potatoes arent terrible either. I eat them, and I'm still getting results...just had one for lunch with some chicken breast :eat:

I'm an Asian, so rice, rice, rice... especially if it's brown, red or other whole grain type...

sweet potatoes are more nutritious and IMO more tasty
although sometimes i add some basmati rice to my diet for variety, brown rice is also tasty, i suck at cooking it though (no idea what to add to flavor it, i just mix it with chicken and vegies so far!)

any advice on type of "brown rice."

will the box say "brown rice" ??

all rice is good, just brown rice has more fiber!

the pack should say "long/medium grain brown rice"

You could experiment with beans too. The dried ones have a good $/cal value but take a bit more effort to cook.

1/4 cup dry black beans, according to the back of the bag, provide 160 cal, 29 carb, 11 prot, 0 fat. 12g fiber, 3g sugar...

My favourite brand of rice is Lundberg--they grow and sell an amazing variety of rice. I really like the Organic Brown Basmati.

http://www.lundberg.com/products/idx_rice.html

Beans are great! I use the crockpot and a mixture of black, red, kidney beans. Mix some with brown rice and yummy. :)

thank God for sweet potatoes!


anyone mix them with anything?

My favourite brand of rice is Lundberg--they grow and sell an amazing variety of rice. I really like the Organic Brown Basmati.

http://www.lundberg.com/products/idx_rice.html

Second the vote for Lundberg. My favorite is brown short grain. Lundberg has a good article on the benefits of brown over white on their web site - or they did last I checked.

I bought a rice cooker that has a brown rice cycle made by Zojirushi - add water and rice and ignore. Great tool - I use it daily.

Does anyone happen to know the nutritional information for sweet potatoes, boiled with the skin kept on? All the nutritional databases I've found give data for the skin removed.

Does anyone happen to know the nutritional information for sweet potatoes, boiled with the skin kept on? All the nutritional databases I've found give data for the skin removed.

Why? Do you eat the skin as well? Even if you boiled it wih the skin, but later when you peeled it, it doesn't count.

Second the vote for Lundberg. My favorite is brown short grain. Lundberg has a good article on the benefits of brown over white on their web site - or they did last I checked.

I bought a rice cooker that has a brown rice cycle made by Zojirushi - add water and rice and ignore. Great tool - I use it daily.

Third vote for Lundberg brown rice and Zojirushi rice steamers rock! Those two in combo are a convenient powerhouse of food.

I personally love the Lundberg short grain brown and can eat it for bfast, lunch and dinner. Recently I picked up some Lundberg brown basmati rice and dig on that stuff too. Love the way the basmati rice smells kind of like popcorn when cooking. I've taken to combining half brown short grain and half brown basmati and cook them up together.

Damn, while I'm at it, I should mention that those of you who like a little more flavor and zest should try cooking your brown rice with a couple of cloves of garlic tossed in at the start of cooking. By the end of the cook time, those garlic cloves are ssssoft and when you stir your rice up, they just disappear into the rice.....mmmmmm!!!!

A half-cup of cooked brown rice in a big non-stick skillet heated up sizzling hot with two or three eggs scrambled together is one helluva tasty breakfast! Additionally, if you first heat up the rice sizzling hot, toss a BIG handful of fresh spinach on top, mix the two till the spinach is wilted and THEN mix two or three beaten eggs into the hot rice/spinach combo, you'll wind up with an even better breakfast, IMHO, YMMV, IANA-chef.... :nod:

Lately I've been going for half brown rice and half lightly pearled barley (still brown) -put together in the rice cooker and add water. Tastes like ultra chewy rice and it's yummy! :)

Great! I'm going to try this. Trying to get off dairy. (and it's particularly hard for breakfast) think I'll use egg beaters with olive oil though with this one.


A half-cup of cooked brown rice in a big non-stick skillet heated up sizzling hot with two or three eggs scrambled together is one helluva tasty breakfast! Additionally, if you first heat up the rice sizzling hot, toss a BIG handful of fresh spinach on top, mix the two till the spinach is wilted and THEN mix two or three beaten eggs into the hot rice/spinach combo, you'll wind up with an even better breakfast, IMHO, YMMV, IANA-chef.... :nod:

Since we're on the topic already, just wondering guys... how may cup of cooked brown rice do you eat in one sitting? :D

Since we're on the topic already, just wondering guys... how may cup of cooked brown rice do you eat in one sitting? :D

I eat 160g of cooked rice 3 times aday. Not sure what that is in cups. I make alot of stir fry's so it really bulks up the meals. Sweet potatoes are damn nice as well.