Recently, I wonder whether New York and California go one or two steps ahead of Japan in the brown rice consumption. Is it due to the health-conscious and healthy-choices boom? In New York, I’m surprised to see that nearly 10 kinds of rolled sushi which made of brown rice are sold in the ordinary cheap supermarkets. Brown rice would be a worldwide boom because I haven’t seen such a scene at the supermarkets in Japan yet.
Well, if there is a difference between white rice nutrition and brown rice nutrition, it is because the whole nutrition of a germ part that has already polished in white rice remains in brown rice.
Therefore, B-complex vitamins, potassium, magnesium, and phosphorus are three times as many as that of white rice. And a lipid contained in outer bran part is three times, too.
Also, dietary fiber such as cellulose and hemicellulose which prevent constipation is contained over four times more than that of white rice.
Although people who try to brown rice and vegetable consumption increase significantly when they become cancer, brown rice and sprouted brown rice are rich in Gamma-aminobutyric acid which is the substance called GABA. And if you get a lot of it, that makes hormones in the brain, and I guess the reason that people are less likely to cause depression. Moreover, beta-glucan which is included a bran is not usually absorbed so much from the intestine. But when it is absorbed a little, it becomes an incentive, and the effects of immune system cells increase had confirmed. There are even companies that extract beta-glucan from brown rice and make supplements.

However, brown rice is poorly absorbed. The products which are powdered and roasted it are also sold, so it might be good that you try it when you are sick. Although it is of course that you are impressed to see the nutrition and its figures in a chart, it is also important to know whether or not they are absorbed properly.
To find out this, check the figures in a blood test. Including immune strength, now you can find it out by a blood test. If you get sick, it’s good to try test sometimes for checking immune strength and nutritional status.