Effects of retort pouched rice containing pre-germinated brown rice on daily nutrition and physical status in healthy subjects

Abstract

  We examined the daily nutrition, the physical status and biochemical analysis of the blood effect of retort pouched rice containing pre-germinated brown rice on healthy female university students. The subjects daily ingested 400g of retort pouched rice containing pre-germinated brown rice (polished rice : pre-germinated brown rice = 1 : 1) as a staple food for 10 weeks. Consequently, the investigation showed high amounts of fat consumption and low amounts of carbohydrate consumption, however, during the retort pouched rice intake study, the energy ratio of the Protein : Fat : Carbohydrate mixture was improved. Though the measured values of the BMI, the percent of body fat and serum cholesterol with the period of experiment did not practically change, those values were decreased to appropriated range for the participants who have a high level from the first. As a result of this study, the validity of the benefits of eating retort pouched rice containing pre-germinated brown rice was suggested on the basis of the improvement in the general health and its maintenance as well as prevention of lifestyle related diseases, such as dietary obesity and hyperlipemia.