Potatoes and Rice on a Low Carb / Keto Diet? Resistant Starch Tested pt 1 

One of the meals I miss the most is a humble bowl of rice with butter and one (or two) over easy eggs with a runny yolk on top. This is a game-changer!!!

I've been keto for almost 6 years. I pretty much hit a wall this year. I wasn't feeling good I wasn't losing anything it just wasn't working very well for me this year. I started adding potatoes and rice back into my diet and I lost weight and feel so much better.

I'm so glad you brought this up! I made a batch of jasmine rice and left it in the fridge for a day. My fasting sugar was 96. I ate about 1.25 cups with some butter and tested in an hour and then in 2 hours. One hour...110 and 2 hours back to 96. Though I wouldn't eat rice often it can now be a special treat once in a while. Thank you! :-)

I love how efficient you are, not wasting your audience's time. But you're still funny!! 😄😂😅😁

I love ❤️ this experiment. For me personally potatoes are something l am unwilling to give up. I eat them once a week at 4oz at a time either as fried potatoes or mashed potatoes. It’s about 20 carbs and my carbs vary from 0 ( meat only days) to 40 a day and manage to stay in Ketosis. Keto, Fasting 16 hours a day eating 2 meals has helped me lose weight and control my blood pressure. I may cut potatoes to twice a month to see how l feel.

I love this video because we who are on a keto lifestyle are so frightened of eating starch it was riveting to know what your blood glucose &ketone results were! I just want to ‘thank you ‘, on behalf of the keto chickens for making yourself as the guinea pig! This was very interesting and eye opening as far as rice & potato resistance starch affects on you! Keep up with more food glucose testing videos! Thanks again!

I have no doubt many people will tell me that I did this experiment "wrong", so let me proactively address some things I expect to see in the comments: FIRST -- READ THE JOHNS HOPKINS ARTICLE IN THE DESCRIPTION 1) Does reheating the potatoes/rice "reactivate" the starch? There's debate on that, with credible sources on both sides. *The Johns Hopkins article I link to in the description says that reheating doesn't make a difference.* I think some people may be confusing the impact of reheating on the benefit to the gut biome vs the impact on the blood glucose. The fact is, I wouldn't eat either of them cold "in real life", so I'm not going to test in a way that is counter to how I'd eat them. 2) The potato was "baked" in the microwave then chilled for 2 days before frying the slices up in beef fat (tallow). The rice was cooked in an Instant Pot and chilled for 2 days before being reheated in a microwave. 3) Were the serving sizes comparable? I went with what would be a "real world" serving size for me, and they came out pretty close. According to Carb Manager, the potato was 38g of total carbs (34g net) and the rice was 41g of total carbs (40g net). 4) For those offended that I didn't like the furikake, I think it's the Trader Joe's brand that was the problem. I make a umami dust out of kombu, katsuobushi and shiitake -- so I definitely don't have a problem with Japanese flavors. I just made my own furikake blend based on a recipe from Food & Wine magazine (I think they call it Japanese Everything Bagel seasoning) and it's great. 5) Did adding fat with the sour cream and cheese reduced the blood glucose spike? Maybe. But I'll say again, I prepped these the way I'd eat them in real life (with the exception of that furikake seasoning). And if adding fat is supposed to reduce the blood glucose, it frightens me to think what the potato would have been like without the tallow. And if fat is just supposed to slow the spike, how come my numbers went down at hour 2? 6) This wasn't a scientific experiment (nor did I claim it to be) -- it was one guy, testing and sharing his results with a big disclaimer at the end that my results are not indicative of your results. I hope that some other folks will give this a try and post their results so that we have a larger sample size to learn from. 7) There have been some legitimate suggestions about other ways to test -- like trying the potatoes cold, trying non-resistant (just prepared) rice versus the resistant rice, trying repeated heat/cooling cycles on the rice (which supposedly makes it MORE resistant), etc. These are all things I thought about, but was unwilling to drag the filming out any longer, make the video any longer, or stab myself anymore. *There WILL be follow up videos at some point where I will test these other things out.* Thanks and keto on! Steve

Hi, Steve! I found this to be so interesting, thanks. I think testing is important to let us know what works and what doesn't, although I won't be straying from strict-ish Keto until I meet my weight loss goals.😊

I wasn’t expecting to laugh so hard watching someone that looks so serious (My husband does too, no one could tell how funny he truly is) I was nervous watching you eating this carbs. Thank you so much for testing this on yourself to educate us.

THANK YOU, STEVE!! I am completely amazed and heartened by the things you will do for the sake of your viewers! If you find that video podcasts on keto or on cooking are not enough in your life, please consider going into comedy! You have a real gift for making life fun! BTW, in the matter of the resistant starch test, at age 79, I think I’m going to steer clear, as it would be just another “trigger” to falling off the mostly-keto

I would have put butter on the rice to make it easier to eat and a little flavor. When I go out of ketosis I can feel it. I get hot and my stomach will hurt. I will then have malaise and hard to get going again until my body gets over it. Thanks for taking the test Steve and sharing your experience.

I used to LOVE sweet rice as a kid. Rice, milk, nutmeg and sugar. We were poor as dirt so this was often moms affordable desert for us kids lol

Dang, Steve! You are really putting yourself out there for the team!! Thank you!

Well done video, and thanks for including the references. So many people make claims these days and regard them as fact, but they don't show any backing evidence. Keep up the good work Steve! Love your videos, especially the blood tests and recipes! I'm glad RU-vid is still recommending lots of your videos to me.

Thank you for doing this! I’ve wondered about resistant starches but feel I just don’t need it so why bother. You saved me the discomfort and discontent! That’s one of the reasons I’m such a fan!

Poor Steve... I felt his pain with that 191 reading. 😳 I've been so down in the dumps lately that I knocked myself out of ketosis & I haven't put much effort into getting back into it 😩😩😩. My blood sugar is always perfect, but my lack of fasting & non-exercise is keeping my ketone levels SUPER LOW 😩 But I try to stay inspired & connected by watching my favorite youtubers 🥰🥰🥰

Love this video, cool about rice although that's not something I miss at all. But sadly, the first ingredient in those mission low carb tortillas is resistent wheat starch, which appears to be listed as fiber, but these tortillas do not have the taste or texture of a high fiber tortilla at all. Tortillas with that much fiber in them taste like cardboard. I've tried at least eight different brands of them maybe more. those tortillas taste way too much like normal tortillas, if you ever decide to do some blood glucose testing on those, that would be fascinating to see anothet experiment with a third type of resistance starch. I am completely amazed at how much you are willing take these bullets for everyone else!

This was a great test. It would have been great to compare the numbers to freshly cooked rice/potatoes. Also pasta.

I have made a couple of batches of homemade potato salad recently. Using Steve's homemade mayo recipe. And utilizing the resistant starch hack. So far so good! I'll check my stats next weekend. Thanks Steve!

Butter on the rice next time. Love and appreciate your testing video. If the rice has the same effect on me I will start making "rice" that is 1/2 cauliflower and 1/2 actual rice. I think it will taste and smell better.

Your blood sugar returning to essentially the same as it was pre potato means you don’t have any issues. There is nothing wrong with 1 hour spikes. They are normal. And even beneficial. If it had taken your blood sugar 4 or 5 hours to return to the pre meal numbers then you would have issue. Obviously you are very metabolically healthy.

Dirty rice is one of my favorite dishes. Quick cheap and easy for the whole family! Thanks for doing this experiment.

Thanks for doing this! I'd heard about this reheating business, and was going to try this with pasta. I wish someone would try this with a continuous glucose monitor, because it would be interesting how high the spike really ended up getting and how whether the impact lasted hours longer than usual (i.e., at 3, 4, 5, 6 hours later). I'm type 2 diabetic, so I'm a little nervous about conducting this test but will consider doing it because it would be wonderful to eat basmati again.

i just happened upon this video and you made a very good point i never realized. we dont actually like the flavor of potatoes and rice but the stuff we put with it. surprisingly helpful insight

Thank you for the tests. Quite eye-opening and expressive.

Steve, you sure took one for the team here. Much appreciated.

I remember my physiology professor telling us about resistant starch. And yes the key is to completely cool the starch down (I don’t recall how long it needed to be cooled) then reheat before consuming.

I used to love potatoes. I live in Idaho! My licence plate says, "Famous Potatoes." I made a run to the hamburger drive-through a couple of weeks ago and got a lettuce wrapped burger, but burgers and fries for the rest of the family. On the way home, I speared three fries from the bag. My first thought was, "Why did you ever think these tasted good?" Not having a planned potatoes now for almost 2 years, has changed my taste-buds. I've never been a big rice eater. So thanks for doing this for us Steve. On a personal note, I am simply finding so much variety in our Keto options, I don't miss either one of these starches. I think learning from Steve and putting some creativity to use has made eating much more fun and varied. For example the other day I made Steve's pancake mix and added a tablespoon and a half of olive oil to it (most waffle recipes say add oil), and for a flavor change, I added two tablespoons of pecan flour. Some of the best waffles ever! What a nice change and so yummy. I am slowly converting my wife over! She loved it. Being a fan of Jason Fung, I have had a couple of baked potatoes when dining with friends because I considered it to be a "feast" meal. My thinking is it didn't take one meal to get me in the trouble I was in, nor will it take one meal to get me out. One feast meal every few months isn't going to hurt in my opinion unless you are fighting a serious medical condition. I have been practicing "casual keto" (not strict portion control) for past 9 months and have maintained a weight between 191 and 197. I have a goal of 180, and this week have gone back to a strict program to get there. I'm in my mid-60's and for the first time I feel in real control. Personally, I'm more excited about being able to maintain a plateau for the first time in my life! Steve you have given me a lot of variety through your recipes to make this fun. I will confess - I like to eat and enjoy food. I give thanks to Serious Keto and others for my success.

So love watching your videos while working, your one liners are hilarious. Thank you for trying the science out for us!

Best part of the video was the reaction to eating rice the first time. I needed a good laugh, thanks.

It would be great to eat sushi again but I would have to make it. I have trust issues with restaurants 😬. Thanks for doing this experiment Steve. Like many hot fries w/ salt & vinegar from the fair no substitute. 😄 I’ve been known to snatch one or two from my kids. Thankfully they eat them in a flash. 🙏🏼 I am T2 and have been eating a ketogenic way for almost four years. The one food no one can replace or replicate is popcorn. We pop our own with the whirlypop on the stove top. We use the Amish popcorn (hull less) when I want some which is rarely I measure out a cup and enjoy. Sometimes in this way of eating you have to find ways to make it sustainable and if you can give yourself some leeway occasionally it helps. Now not everyone can do that for what ever reason. In four years I’ve probably only done that twice. If I remember right I had been in Ketosis about two years. It didn’t knock me out of ketosis. I do remember that. Testing yourself is really key. We are all so different and at different stages of healing. Thanks Steve. 🙂

“I managed to take something really bland...and make it taste worse.” 🤣 Your commentary, especially about the rice, was brilliant. I agree these starches are delivery mechanisms above all else. Thanks for taking one for the team for us!

Steve, I think your body is well-conditioned to bounce back from a "bad" meal or two but it was still surprising to see the positive change in your ketone levels on the second day. Each individual will have results that are specific to them. As a Type 2 diabetic, I'd be afraid to keep on looking for that magic solution to eating carbs. I had to go back and re-watch Part 1 of your Transformation Series again to confirm that I don't recall you being diabetic, so that glucose spike with the potatoes would probably be worse for a T2. BTW, I also took the opportunity to listen to "Walk" by the Foo Fighters. Powerful song. Thanks for mentioning it.

Hi Steve.. Just stumbled across your channel 👍👍 I live in Indonesia and Indonesians eat the most rice per capita in the world.. More than twice the amount of the nationality in second place 😱 Needless to say diabetes is a huge problem here, your research and the links show useful information. I'll share this with as many people as possible.. Thanks again for the video 🙏

Stuffed bell peppers immediately came to mind! As a person on KETO maintenance mode, incorporating rice that's not made from cauliflower would make my hubby more likely to get on board with the KETO movement. I will have to try my own experiment and see how it goes. I watched another person do the same thing and she is also able to have rice like this without kicking her out of ketosis. Thank you for doing this video.

" This tastes like low tide smells"...🤣 Thanks for "taking one for the team" with these enlightening tests.

Rice is cheap! Great news for people on a low income. Cauliflower rice costs about 7 times more.

So interesting! I had heard of resistant starch but this helped it become more clear. My partner and I started keto in May of 2018, and I hadn't felt the need for the ketone monitor or glucose testing. But since April, the ten pounds I lost are back on and hanging on with a vengeance. So I just ordered them through your link. I hope it helps. And I hope to contribute more in the future. I have really enjoyed your videos and recipes. So grateful for your well edited and your calm voice.

My husband & I are pushing seventy & have been doing Keto since March (yes, right at the beginning of COVID). I have lost over 60 pounds & he has lost over 55. Just a few days ago I found one of your videos when I saw something a person posted on a facebook keto page about chaffles and I was clueless, so Googled it. Just want to say I find your videos a refreshing change of pace from those of MOST people who leave their cameras running while they measure out ingredients, stir a mix forever, yak & ramble incessantly and apparently don't know how to edit. I find you a joy to watch and listen to. So yes... I was an immediate fan. Thanks for being brief, clever and easy to listen to. You're a rock star!

Laughing so hard about the furikaki! I totally agree with your assessment. I live in Hawaii where everyone loves the stuff. Not me. I can’t stand to even smell it. I don’t know how u got it down, but thanks for the test!!!

From what I understand, to lower the carbs in the rice, they cooked the rice with coconut oil. The oil binds with the digestible starch from the rice and begins crystallization into the resistant kind of starch. Refrigeration, is said to increase the amount of crystallization. (I've read that reheating the rice, does not reverse the process.) You didn't mention how you cooked the rice, so I thought I would mention this, with a suggestion: Try cooking your rice with C8 MCT oil instead of regular coconut oil. I hypothesize that this will yield the best outcome possible for the experiment.

The husband and I laughed our fool fannies off...we have dry humor also, and that just tickled us to pieces. Especially the remark about smelling like low tide...that was a keeper and we shall use it in the future. Thank you really for taking this test...we sure wouldn't have, but were very curious as to how it would turn out. That you got a nice steady low reading on rice, was sure a surprise. I suspect, one would have to make sure that their carb values would have to stay low over the day (in other words, count those carbs), but it might be something to get some variety in there, without blowing our diet to smitherines.

I admire your patience to prove a point, thank you again a lot of learning to do

Steve, I have been thinking about your test with the potatoes affecting your blood sugar. You mentioned that the rice was a few days old. I was thinking that maybe an older potato would make the difference. If you think of the mass between a grain of rice and a potato, there is a great deal of difference. Maybe the potato would take longer to change into something that was more insulin resistant. Just a thought. I appreciate so much your creativity in producing interesting content. Thanks for all you do to make your channel informative and entertaining.

I’m definitely going to try this! Rice is my favorite. You are the second person I’ve seen that rice doesn’t effect much. I hope I have similar results! Thanks for the information.

I've always admired your videos for all the great quality you put in them, your clarity, your scientific method approach to what you do. This one brought it to the next level. Thank you for sharing! Since you do keto, you're "supposed" to have physiological insulin resistance, coming from your cells preference now to getting fuel from fat, instead of carbs. They even say we need to eat about 150g of carbs per day, for 3 days, before doing an oral glucose test, or else our results would be off the grid high. But you didn't seem to have a problem, your BG being back down, close to baseline after 2h. Or: you result with the potato was the uber high result due to your cells being fat adapted and refusing the glucose. And you didn't do bad, considering it was back down in 2h! Nice! When you had rice, it could be that you had already kind of kicked your cells back from the physiological insulin resistance with the potatoes. That would have carried to the second day. I'm guessing a lot, of course! The preparation mode still leaves a lot of "normal" carbs in that food. What comes out of this experience, for me, is that your body works wonderfully, having dealt with the carb abuse! Your insulin managed to bring your BG down within the 2h. Very nice! I hope it was only a small insulin quantity. Anyway, it did its job!🏆 Thank you very much for the videos with great content, for your approach, for not putting music... your material is simply perfect!🏆🌻🌹

I'm really, really happy that you tested basmati rice. As someone of South Asian descent, rice is the one thing I miss and basmati rice is pretty much the staple variety of a large number of South Asian as well as Middle Eastern/Central Asian dishes. Might have to cook up some biryani or Afghan pilaf.

Thanks for your clear demonstration. I appreciate the no frills presentation.

Huge thanks for doing this experiment. It was a pleasure to watch you. The only thing, I would like to mention is that you affected glycemic impact of rice by adding sour cream and cheese. It is not just about the quantity of.carbs, but the quality of carbs at that meal is altered by the presence of protein and fat added to the meal.

Be interesting to see with different types of potatoes. I do carb cycling with organic basmati rice as a resistant starch. Rewarm rice with 2 tsp of ACV, add Furikake and TJs everything but bagel seasoning. Then add roasted seaweed, avocado, cucumber and smoked salmon with a dash of spicy avocado oil mayo. Sushi in a bowl!

I eat sweet potatoes one day a week to help balance hormones. Place the sweet potato into the fridge after cooking, eat it cold a few hours later and it is supposed to turn into fiber during digestion. I don't miss regular potatoes at all. Very interesting video~ ty.

When ever I was sick with a stomach bug, my Mom had me eat a boiled potato and felt better. I have done it with my kids and it worked.

I found the easiest way to understand resistant starch is that the item is fully resistant in it's raw state and the cooking and cooling process brings 40 to 80 percent of it back to resistant, depending on the item. I found for me rice doesn't spike me, potatoes do but not as bad as you did. For me, this means sushi is back! (using homemade, sugar free sushi vinegar). It was wonderful 🥰

I can tell your body felt the effects. Your skin parlor changes. Your numbers tell me you have a wonderfully healthy metabolism. The average joe(like me) would not return to their baseline so easily and would feel the effects for far longer. Your metabolic state is my goal for 2020! Thanks so much for sharing. I love the analytical and methodical way you address your experiments.

Wow, now that was interesting. I may need to test out pasta. There’s nothing like next day spaghetti 😋.

I also have noticed that bump with carbs. I've started to do a carb cycling of sorts, and surprisingly I've started to lose weight! And I'm maintaining weight right now, not trying to lose any. I think the key is to be balanced with carbs you don't want to over do it. I've even had a piece of pound cake, of course a real serving size slice.

Wow shocker on the rice! I did a test on rice and my glucose went over 200! Then I did it on french fries and only went up to 142. It's good to carb cycle and mix things up! Thanks for showing your results!

Very interesting, thanks. Glad I gave up the taters long ago. Rice, I limit to a few spoonfuls hopefully wild and long grain. I’m glad you looped in gut health to your conversation. So important!

Thanks for the experiment. It did not go well for me when I tried a few months ago, but I had been off keto for 6 months. The look on your face after the first spoonful of rice was classic. 😄. If you like ghee, add a dollop to the warm rice and salt to taste. World of difference! Post prandial blood sugar is usually tested at the 90 minute or 120 minute mark. Your values show that your insulin secretion is good and you may not have insulin resistance. The fact that your ketones rebounded shows you are well adapted to switch between the diets. The increase in weight shows you retained water with the carbs. A month of consuming resistant starch may show a different picture. But you may be one of the lucky ones who can an occasional bowl of rice !

After a two week stint on ciprofloxacin, I _definitely_ had some gut issues. I got raw milk from a local farmer & made my own kefir. Drinking the kefir for a few weeks completely restored my gut biome. I am truly terrified (🤷🏻‍♀️) of eating those overt starches again. I’ve lost 42# and restored my health...& I won’t go near those typically carb-rich foods again if I can avoid it. I don’t want to court the devil...lol 🙄 Eating potatoes or rice for my gut when there’s kefir available isn’t an option for me. Re: kefir, after the bacteria eat the lactose in the milk, kefir is a keto safe food. If you can make your own, or if you can find kefir in the store without sugar added, I’d highly recommend it for gut biome problems. Edit to add: I very much appreciate the info on this, tho!! It’s a great piece of knowledge to have if needed & I can’t get kefir. Thx, Steve!!❤️

Fry the rice in beef tallow with egg and use coco aminos. Asian style.

This is a very interesting test. I have always wondered about the Japanese and sushi. The rice is cold, so maybe yes it won't affect weight loss. I must admit I have indulged and have not noticed a weight change, but I did not do the blood/keto/sugar testing.

This opens up a WORLD of foods that I love. The first thing that comes to mind is egg fried rice! If it could keep insulin down, egg fried rice (I would think) would be a very keto friendly treat every once in a while. Obviously not every meal but would be a good "cheat" day to keep you in ketosis. Very interesting!

For white rice, salt and butter. That's all you need.

Very interesting! I’m going to look into resistant starches, thank you! I would probably have been right into those potatoes, though, lol! I was always the plain French fries girl, just salt, I never needed gravy or ketchup. The rice results make me want to test that out, when you live with someone that used to make fine sushi for a living, it’s hard to give that up! Though experiments with cauliflower and cream cheese “sticky rice” have been tasty, it’s just not the same. Here’s hoping!🤞🏻

~ These cold boiled potatoes drizzled in olive oil are called "Italian breakfast potatoes ". Very common in Italian families in the "old days" . Who knew about the starch .. ? 👌 _{ P.S. One of the best diet/health channels }_

There are some varieties of potatoes that are low glycemic such as Carisma and Huckleberry Gold. I wonder if they would affect blood glucose and ketones any less. 🧐

If you've got haters - it's because you are doing something very important and drawing FIRE from (knowingly and unknowingly) agents of Death. Carry On!!! You are appreciated.

Steve, as usual you amaze me. If I were to eat a portion of rice, my Keto diet would be gone forever. Rice has been my dietary downfall for years. PLUS, you stuck yourself 12 (?) times for this test! I can test diabetics all day long, and have, but no way am I doing a stick on myself! Thanks again for all you do ~

Thank you Steve again for taking one for the team. I heard about the resistance starch a couple months ago and tried it with a baked potato, my sugar went through the roof and I was out of ketosis for 2 days. I did not know however about the good gut bacteria that this produces so I will revisit it when I reach my goal.

I'm not doing keto to lose weight even though I have lost weight I'm doing keto to bring my blood sugar's down to normal cuz I'm type 2 and they were out of control, I heard about the resistant starch a month after I started, when I did my test I use the Yukon gold cuz it's the lowest starch potato, I cut them into French fries shape soak them in water overnight then I boiled them and put them back in the fridge overnight and then I deep fry them, well I started with a blood sugar of 98, then after one hour it went up to 140 I was a bit worried that the 2-hour mark I was 89 I was lower than I started.

Interesting, I appreciate your doing these tests. I am T2D and am controlling my bg entirely with diet so I am really careful about carbs. Knowing how these things effect you help me decide whether i want to take a chance and try them.

This is really good information. I thank you for your tongue and your fingers for their sacrifice.

Thank you for taking one for the team and giving us a good laugh. I just can’t stick myself so I just watch what goes in the pie hole. Lost 25 pounds this way. Pushed through two plateaus by having very small serving of cold potatoes and a cheat meal every so often. Spring mix salad is my saving grace. I love the results you shared. I am going to switch to rice and see how that goes. Potatoes and breads make me feel like poo! 😉

You literally made me laugh out loud over the taste of the rice with that spice you added. Good job! you are truly suffering for your art! ;)

I've been reading and watching videos about resistant starch for a few months already as I find it really difficult to kick carbs out of my diet. This is probably the only video which actually shows readings and useful info. Thanks a lot! Was wondering if measurements with stuff like chilled quinoa, beans or chickpeas also have the same effect. Damn I love quinoa! You got yourself a new follower. Awesome content!

Fascinating, Steve =) I'm now wondering about whole grain/brown rice.

You're such a trooper for doing all this. Some commentators are asking you to re-do it. I say, they can do their own testing.....you've done enough. Some are saying to eat the potato cold...the only way I would eat cold potato is to make a potato salad. Sorry you had to eat the gross rice.

Thanks for taking one for the team so to say...but I am a food addict and always looking for excuses to eat things I shouldn't...and the top two things happen to be my old faves are rice and Potatoes..I know for me Potatoes get me into serious trouble. Just 1 steak fry turns into a whole basket of fries and then more (if at say Red Robin..YUM) but yeah I hope you didn't get sick, or have too bad of cravings for all sorts of other carby things and if you had I sure hope it didn't last as long for you as it had for me. I actually went back to being ketovore because plants make me sick and also seriously hungry. But I appreciate you doing this and all the other things you do here on your channel and wanted to thank you from the bottom of my mostly carnivore heart. ❤️

I'm about halfway through. When I saw the 191 I actually muttered HOLY SHIT. I didn't expect the spike to be that high. Wow.

Steve, do you think that the second rice that you ate had less of a movement in your blood sugar was because you had some fat and protein with it?

I watched the whole thing. very interesting but I won't be trying this test. If I want rice or 'taters I'll just take a break from keto for a while. I'm not really craving rice or potatoes at the moment but maybe one day I'll take a keto break.

I'm thinking instead of adding rice to a soup, make it earlier and cool it, then add to the soup. I know rice isn't a large component of a soup recipe, but I became wary of carbs. The Hopkins Diabetes site stated that reheating the rice wouldn't change the resistant starch, so since they could care less either way, I'm trusting that. Thanks so much for the test. Now I have a better plan to add rice to my diet without "fear."

Great video and super informative! I've been Keto for close to 3 months now and it's been great, however I was dreading the holidays, one of my favorite dishes I make for the family and of course myself is New Orleans Red Beans & RICE...I was just gonna bite the bullet and deal with the carbs from the kidney beans and the rice but this video makes me feel much better about that decision..thanks for posting your experiment!

I grew up eating cold leftover rice for breakfast. We just added a little milk and cinnamon. Might have to try it with almond or coconut milkand see what it does to me.

New to Keto, so you have been my savor!!! Thank you so much for stomaching the patatoes and the first batch of rice, I was gagging for you 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢 I was hoping the second batch of rice will work somehow since I do crave it so much. Thank you for being so amazing and always sharing your keto journey with those of us new to this low carb life style. You are making it so much easier 🙏☺️

The starch has to be cold when you eat for it to be accurate. Sushi never kicks me out but may just be me.

Thank you SO much for your experiment. I also had heard of resistant starch over a year ago and have been considering implementing it again.

I gasped at 191!!!! That reading for me I would feel dizzy, light headed and my face would be flushed. You are brave!

OMG! That was awesome! My asian side misses rice so much! Still scared to have it though. Might bring out my food addiction monster!

Yes! It was about two years before I snitched one of my granddaughter's french fries and I thought it was flavorless and had a weird grainy texture I never remembered. I will caution you about the rice is that many low carb doctors will say that organ damage happens whenever your blood glucose is over 120. I don't remember which ones specifically but if you wanted to look into it some of the doctors would be Dr. Jason Fung or Dr. Westman or maybe Dr. Sarah Hallberg. I remember this from when I was researching keto for my type 2 diabetes and it always stuck with me. BUT being that it would be an occasional thing this might be more true for those who have had or are diabetic. I do like that you do these but then caution everyone to experiment for themselves and not take your results and assume they will have the same results. I heard about resistant starches back when we did Paleo and boy eating Paleo was horrible for me, it kept my carb cravings alive and on a rampage! So glad I found Keto and now I'm also dabbling in carnivore but between just liking you and your channel, I get great recipes for my husband and daughter and will indulge on occasion myself.

Reheating it reverts it back to starch. But cold rice pudding would make a great desert! On a side note, 1 cup of cooked rice is 53g of raw rice 😬

Excellent video. Thanks for the experiments and the results.

Thank you for doing this! I've enjoyed using my Keto Mojo to help me (and my husband) see exactly what different foods do to me, my blood sugar, and therefore most probably my health. It has been so educational! Some things have surprised me as to how quickly I get back to baseline if I don't do them all the time. I'm looking forward to trying sushi for an experiment. That way the rice stays cold, eliminating any argument about reheating converting the resistant starch back to plain starch. Someday I'll try regular rice too, but I love sushi and I *THINK* I would probably consume a far smaller serving of rice eating that. Someday I'll experiment with stir-fry, as well. Today I tried roasted potatoes tossed with avocado oil, S&P, roasted, and then broiled with goat cheese and green onions for a few minutes which is a favorite way of mine to consume potatoes. With what I considered a reasonable serving I experienced a bump but not necessarily a spike. Encouraging. Not something I will do every day or even every week, but I will be keeping an eye on this treat possibility. My hubby isn't keto and would love this. In the future I may try roasting the potatoes, cooling them, and then reheating them and broiling them with the cheese and scallions just to see if it makes a difference in my blood glucose and ketone readings. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us and therefore giving us more information with which to experiment, ourselves!

Purple potatoes ---- digested differently in the body ..... they don't effect the blood sugar! Why don't they shout this from the rooftops????

I truly don't miss potatoes or rice that much. Cauliflower, riced and creamed, tends to fill that hole in my cravings. I have a slow metabolism or at least intermediately slow. I stopped doing strict keto for a year and went just low carb ( less than 75 carbs per day) and I gained 25 pounds. I also didn't watch my caloric intake as closely during that year. I'm about a month in to a keto/ restricted calorie diet again and I've already dropped 12 pounds. To me, this is proof positive that if I want to control my weight I will need to continue to practice keto forever. This doesn't really bother me too much as I have lost those strong cravings for carbs. I miss sweets occasionally but there are plenty of low carb sweeteners that make some fantastic confections that fill that gap.

WOW!!! I did NOT expect those results. I wonder though, what your readings would have been if you didn’t make the rice “resistant” first. In other words, if you first tried eating & testing fresh cooked rice and then compared your readings to “resistant”’rice. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Just my science mind at work. Thanks as always for being our Guinea Pig. This has a lot of prospects for making future planned cheats, not so cheaty lol

Wow, very interesting...THANKYOU for making this sacrifice, been seeing stuff about the resistant starches but didn't trust it, so this has been good and appreciate you sharing!

You do such a great job. So much more then your great recipes. You are the best!!

This was interesting. When I was following "The Carbohydrate Addicts Lifespan Program" I had a half cup of rice with my evening meals, lost weight like crazy. I"m not ready to try it again yet. Maybe later, when I'm closer to my goal weight. Potatoes though, nope, I had my fingers crossed, but oh well. I like french fries and potato chips way too much anyway. I have zero desire to stop eating them once I start. No really, I love potatoes. I don't need ketchup on my fries, a dash of salt is all. I always thought fast food should sell french fries by the bucket, but alas, they did not. ;-)