Rice or wheat?

I absolutely love basmati rice it has a nice nutty flavour that other rice doesn't have although i like wheat products i think i prefer rice.

I want to choose wheat but I've been eating rice since I can remember and I'm so used to it that I won't last a day without eating rice. Wheat is what I need right now because I'm trying to start a new diet. But since my system is so used to eating rice, I can't seem to start on wheat. I guess I'll try harder.

not much for rice here but I do like the wild rice taste and if have a rice receipe I try to find the wild rice to put in it . WHEat is like in al breads and

Hi Professor, seems that people living in the cold region tend to take wheat products as principal food. Might be this is due to the geographical reason. It's really nice to have this opportunity to read the detailed and valuable info above about both rice and wheat as well as how the people in your place taking them as meal. Thanks for sharing I live in a multiracial country located in the tropical region. Therefore many varieties of foods which are delicious respectively are available here. Anyway rice is still our staple food. Thus other than Chinese foods, various types of Indian and Malay are available here as well. We take rice together with three or more tasty dishes as daily meals. It doesn't matter it's Indian, Malay or Chinese of cuisine. We do have both the white fine rice and the brown or red rice here too. Yeah, we love the unique white rice that gives aromatic smell when served fresh. We call it XiangMi in Chinese. Xiang means aromatic whereas Mi is rice in my language. It's yummier than the former two. It's believed that taken such fragrant rice too often or to much would cause muscle pain. Therefore we usually cook it with some white rice added. We would take wheat once in a while to make our daily meal rather diversified Take care and happy posting

hi professor Here in my country The US we mostly prefer wheat to rice customarily but a lot of us now use mutlit grained bread to get more whole grains in our diet. I am partial to basmanti rice as it smells as good as it tastes. We also eat much brown rice as its lower on the glycemi index for us Diabetics, thus not shooting up our blood glucose levels so much. I also like lentils a lot too.Also potatoes seem to play a huge part in our meals here in the US.We love our potatoes and our bread and eat not so much rice. Ihave to be very careful regarding white rice as if I eat too much I get very high blood sugar levels.

im from hyderabad and i eat rice as my staple food. i do eat wheat also but not as much as rice.

As we belong to a common state, so also the tastes about rice and wheat are similar, that is rice at day time and atta(flour)-rotis at night. But my preference is arua rice that is available to me from my native village, about thirty kilometres from here! But in general, common people here like to eat both usna and arua rice! Watered rice has also a new taste and choice among many, mostly in summer season! Watered rice with curd has now become a popular menu in summer season at many reputed hotels also! This is a unique food culture of our state Orissa, which is also a good producer of rice! Cooked arua rice is also offered along with other special items like dal, besara, saaga, aambila etc. to the Lords (Balabhadra, Subhadra and Jagannath) as a daily routine of poojaa at the famous temple of Puri and consumed by people as Mahaprasad or Abadhaa. Similarly, cooked arua rice and the other items are also offered daily to Lord Lingaraj, Lord Ananta-Vaasudeva at Bhubaneswar temples and many important temples in our state! So I may say, "God to humans and mice, everybody loves to take RICE!" Thanks for this rice-posting and rice-choice!!

in the philippines a meal will not be completed without rice serving..i eat 3-4x a day with rice as the main food..

Well, I am a Bengali so rice is the basic staple food for us. but, my parents are diabetic so we have reduced rice considerably from our "menu" and rotis have taken its place with no ghee or butter on it. Personally, I love rice and basmati is indeed so tasty. Its good if the meal course is vegetarian, ofcourse biryanis are an exception. I love rajma chawal and its taste enhances if the rice is basmati. Wheat and rotis/chapati are better nutritionally and if you are diabetic prone then the intake of rice should be curbed down to the minimum. Since you are fond of rice I would like to ask have you ever tried the rice from Kerala. Its absolutely tasteless and odorless, with very small grains yellow in color but its known that it is good in nutrition. Got to have my dinner now.

I like all types of rice, my favorite is the Spanish rice made with what kind of rice I don't know but it also has peas,onions,and sometimes corn added to it and it is soooo good!!I like White Rice with sugar and butter,and I like wheat rice too!! Have a good day!!

dearest professor, rice is our staple food, like potatoes are to the people in the united kingdom i understand from what i have read that wheat are more nutritious than the white rice. wheat is seldom used here though, and most people who eats it are either health conscious or sick and not allowed to eat rice. wheat or wheat flour is mostly used to bake bread. i love rice. it is always on the table, morning, lunch and dinner. it goes well with different filipino viands. sometimes though, i like prefer fruit like ripe bananas in lieu of rice which i also eat with the viand. have a nice day. ann

Daily i eat rise, but for chapaties wheat is correct. In in majority of the people are farmers, all the day time they do the hardwork in the fields, they become hungry, then they prefer to eat rise only. Mostly the diabeties patients will use wheat chapatees.

I eat rice much more than wheat. Almost all of people in east China eat rice as our principal main food. Some province in northwest china take noodle more. But I really miss the taste of my mother's steam bread.

im a filipino and our staple food is rice that is why i prefer rice the most. IT is as if i cant survive without a rice as im used to eating it since the day i started to eat

Thank you professor for sharing the various Indian culinary preferences. In our tropical Singapore, we have Chinese, Malays (those who believe in Islam), Indians, Eurasians. Being a Chinese most of time we have white rice. But lately we have been switching to brown or red rice, which is a healthier and more nutritional option. I have read that frequent eating of white or polished rice could lead to diabetes type II. Besides brown rice taste better. I do eat Indian vegetarian curry and rice too, I enjoy their great taste too.

Well, I am from the UK and I eat both rice and wheat. I enjoy both equally when I think of it, because it depends on what foods accompany the rice or wheat. I like the rice with curries, the wheat I eat with fresh salads, but quite often I add some boiled rice to my salad also.. It's a difficult choice you have suggested there my friend. _Derek

in the philippines, rice is number one food and corn is second. there are some in the remote places that eats even sweet potatoes. but rice is available all over the country. rice is also made to soup or congee.

since i am a south Indian even i prefer eating chapatis than rice.now most of the south Indians are preferring chapatis for the sake of health .but prefer little of rice for starch purpose.

Wheat is more common is western diets simply due to the traditional availability of this grain, the aztechs used ammaranth, asians used rice ect ect, these days we are spoilt for choice and we should take advantage of that choice making our diet as varied as possible. Personally I prefer rice as you can eat it in a much less refined state which is better for you. The best rice to eat is basmati as it has the lowest GI. Hmmm... One thing that you can do to expose yourself to the wide range of grains and cereals out there is to try and eat a gluten free diet for a couple of weeks, that means no wheat, rye or barley, your local supermarket should have plenty of gluten free products as should your local health food store.

I will choose rice, of course that is our staple food. We don't appreciate the taste and benefits of wheat but I think that is a healthy food for a person's diet.