Everybody loves eating Rice, I love rice. I could eat rice all day. 

Did you know that eating rice is not as healthy as you think? There are several ways to consume rice. White and brown rice are the most common ones.

Are you aware that one small bowl of rice contains around 250kcal? If I eat at a Japanese restaurant I usually eat 2-3 rice bowls. So that would be 750kcal. That's a lot...!

At home I tried eating brown rice, but I don't like brown rice. So I started mixing brown rice with white rice. Than I started adding other stuff like chia etc. So for a while I went all rice mixxing crazy but after a while I became lazy and just started eating white rice again. 

10 years ago a Japanese friend introduced me to Mannanhikari
Mannanhikari is made of Konjac

Picture By Sebastian Stabinger 

Konjac is unknown to most western cultures, but huge in Asia. It is used as a dietary supplement and has a lot health benefits.

"Konjak has almost no calories, but it is high on fiber. The dried corm of the konjac plant contains around 40% glucomannan gum. This polysaccharide makes konjac jelly highly viscous  and may be responsible for many of its putative health benefits as used  in traditional Chinese medicine, detoxification, tumour-suppression,  blood stasis alleviation and phlegm liquefaction." Wikipedia

Mannanhikari looks like normal whiterice but it is made of Konjac. You just mix it into your white rice before cooking 

By just mixing Mannanhikari into your rice it will cut the calories of a normal rice bowl down by 33% and it will skyrocket the amount of dietary fiber (2x the amount of dietary fibers than in brown rice) and it is glutenfree!!

Ready cooked white rice with Mannanhikari

Unfortunately until now, you could only buy this in Japan, but last time at REWE in Germany I found out that you can now buy Konjak in Germany.

I bought a package to try it out!! It's sold by DUOTRADE KONJAK 

The concept is a bit different than the original Japanese version. It is in a package containing the Konjak and a liquid. You have to wash the Konjak before cooking it. So wash it under water and than mix it into the rice. 

The outcome is the same, the rice is as tasty as usual but you reduced the calories!!! Only thing I didn't like about that German version is, that it is Made in China.

Are you a rice-eater? Will you try out Konjak? Please leave your comments!!! 

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