{"id":673,"date":"2010-08-27T23:13:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T06:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottbecker.ws\/drc\/?p=673"},"modified":"2011-02-18T15:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T22:54:32","slug":"blackrice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/2010\/blackrice\/","title":{"rendered":"Emperor\u2019s Black Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-675 alignleft\" title=\"emperors rice\" src=\"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-24-285x249.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-24-285x249.png 285w, http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-24-450x394.png 450w, http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-24.png 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><em>By Carina Storrs (Health.com):<\/em> According to ancient Chinese legend, black rice was so rare, tasty, and nutritious that only the emperors were allowed to eat it.<\/p>\n<p>Although black rice is still relatively rare, researchers are trying to bring its distinctive flavor and mix of\u00a0<a title=\"health.com\" href=\"http:\/\/living.health.com\/tag\/antioxidants\/\" target=\"_blank\">antioxidants<\/a> to the masses\u2014or at least to a grocery store near you.<\/p>\n<p>Like brown rice, black rice is full of antioxidant-rich bran, which is found in the outer layer that gets removed during the milling process to make white rice. But only black-rice bran contains the antioxidants known as anthocyanins, purple and reddish pigments\u2014also found in\u00a0<a title=\"health.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.health.com\/health\/gallery\/0,,20306607_1,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">blueberries<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"health.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.health.com\/health\/gallery\/0,,20311953_1,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">grapes<\/a> and\u00a0<a title=\"health.com\" href=\"http:\/\/eating.health.com\/2009\/01\/13\/get-acai-on-the-cheap\/\" target=\"_blank\">acai<\/a>\u2014that have been linked to a decreased risk of\u00a0<a title=\"health.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.health.com\/health\/heart-disease\" target=\"_blank\">heart disease<\/a> and cancer, improvements in memory, and other health benefits.<\/p>\n<p><em>On Chicago&#8217;s North Shore, Sunset Foods carries Emperor&#8217;s Black and\u00a0Red Bhutan rices, and Sea Ranch in Wilmette has \u00a0Emperor&#8217;s Black Rice&#8211; Dr. Cathie<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"health.com\" href=\"http:\/\/news.health.com\/2010\/08\/26\/black-rice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Carina Storrs (Health.com): According to ancient Chinese legend, black rice was so rare, tasty, and nutritious that only the emperors were allowed to eat it. Although black rice is still relatively rare, researchers are trying to bring its distinctive flavor and mix of\u00a0antioxidants to the masses\u2014or at least to a grocery store near you. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[74,99,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1447,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/1447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drcathiedunal.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}