# Is some brown rice "browner" than others?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 21, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-some-brown-rice-browner-than-others/478243 "2008-12-21T23:47:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-some-brown-rice-browner-than-others/478243/1 "2008-12-21T23:47:26Z")

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I ask because I bought some Kroger brand brown rice, and a check of the nutrition facts reveals that I’m only getting 2% more of the daily recommended fiber that white rice provides. Don’t get me wrong: I like my brown rice and all the healthy goodness that comes with it. But with everyone raving about how more fiber you get with brown rice, I expected more.

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**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-some-brown-rice-browner-than-others/478243/2 "2008-12-22T00:13:00Z")

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Obvious question: Were you maybe mis-reading the nutrition label? E.g., was it 2% or 2g of fiber?

Here’s a [link](http://www.lundberg.com/products/Lundberg_rice.aspx) to product info for one rice producer that has a variety of different types of rice. If you click on the products and scroll down, you’ll see the nutrition info.

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**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-some-brown-rice-browner-than-others/478243/3 "2008-12-22T00:33:12Z")

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Thanks for the link, **Hunter**. It appears that I got the least healthiest brown rice that I could find! No wonder I like it.

To clarify, the fiber content per serving on my Kroger rice is 6% of the RDA. The regular white rice is 4%.

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**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-some-brown-rice-browner-than-others/478243/4 "2008-12-22T02:19:26Z")

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It looks like you not only got the least healthy brown rice around, but one of the healthiest white rices. The long drain white **Hunter Hawk** posted has NO fiber! :eek:

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**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-some-brown-rice-browner-than-others/478243/5 "2008-12-22T02:49:23Z")

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Not all generic store brands are worth the savings. Some are, but Kroger brown rice may not be.

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**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-some-brown-rice-browner-than-others/478243/6 "2008-12-22T04:13:33Z")

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My Kroger Instant brown rice has 2g of fiber per serving(7%DV).

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**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-some-brown-rice-browner-than-others/478243/7 "2008-12-22T04:31:43Z")

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I can only get two brands of brown rice here (the bag I have here is Farmers’ select California brown rice), and they both contain 1g of fiber per serving. True, my jasmine rice has 0 grams, but it’s hardly a difference worth noting.

I do like the texture and kind of nutty flavor of brown rice for some dishes, so I use it occasionally, but mostly I just stick with the faster white.