Description

GABA rice is produced by partially sprouting (germinating) brown rice. This germination process makes available additional amounts of the amino acid GABA (gamma amino-butyric acid) that is naturally occurring in brown rice. Studies have found that GABA has various benefits including: a calming effect on the nervous system, improving sleep, helping to fight depression, and lowering blood pressure.

If you are looking for a simple and inexepensive way to improve your sleep, a way to assist with the treatment of anxiety disorders and a way to potentially boost your immune system, make this your newest staple food: GABA rice. As a result of the sprouting process, germinated brown rice contains an increased amount of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), a neurotransmitter with calming effects on the brain.

This fact only could be enough for any of us, but there are so many more health benefits of the germinated brown rice, as a result of the magic sprouting process!

Ingredients: Brown Rice

Basic Preparations:

Stove top:

1. Rinse rice.

2. To a pot add 2 cups of GABA rice to 3 cups cold water.

3. Bring water and rice to a full boil, reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 40 minutes. Do not lift lid during cooking process.

4. Open lid and fluff rice.

 

More Information about GABA Germinated Brown Rice

While this helpful nutritional benefit might be enough for any of us to start using GABA rice in our entrees, there are many other positive health benefits of GABA germinated brown rice, as a result of the sprouting process.

The natural process increases its nutritional value, and also makes the rice sweeter and softer. GABA germinated brown rice is definitely the best alternative to any other rice grain. These nutritional (and tasty!) benefits come directly from the rice/seed — in order to give birth to a new plant, the soaked seed must turn into a nutritional powerhouse, which changes its chemical composition.

What exactly does the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) for your health and why is it among the most popular supplements? GABA is actually an inhibitory neurotransmitter, when it attaches to a protein it blocks some of the brain signals, decreases the activity of the nervous system and has a calming effect.

GABA supplements are taken for stress relief, anxiety, high blood pressure and insomnia, but it isn’t scientifically proved how much from the supplementary GABA actually reaches your brain.

The health benefits of adding GABA rice to your diet range from regulating the sleep cycle and balancing mood, to boosting the immune system activity, stimulating the growth hormone, preventing hypertension, high cholesterol, kidney failure, diabetes, tumor proliferation and Alzheimer’s disease.

From the NIH.gov website: Rice is a staple food for over half of the world’s population. Germinated brown rice (GBR) is considered whole food because only the outermost layer i.e. the hull of the rice kernel is removed which causes least damage to its nutritional value. Brown rice can be soaked in water at 30 °C for specified hours for germination to get GBR. Soaking for 3 h and sprouting for 21 h has been found to be optimum for getting the highest gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) content in GBR, which is the main reason behind the popularity of GBR. The intake of GBR instead of white rice ameliorates the hyperglycemia, boosts the immune system, lowers blood pressure, inhibits development of cancer cells and assists the treatment of anxiety disorders. Germination process could be used as enzymatic modification of starch that affects pasting properties of GBR flour. GBR would improve the bread quality when substituted for wheat flour. It is concluded that GBR has potential to become innovative rice by preserving all nutrients in the rice grain for human consumption in order to create the highest value from rice.