Vaush is wrong!!! (about rice)

Every couple of days we get another diet segment and vaush always brings up he eats rice and beans and suggest other do it too. Beans are good but has he seen the macro's on white rice? It's utter dogshit.

If you want to have a balanced and easy to create diet, basically any other staple grain will be better and if you look at other carbohydrate source there are even better options. I get that you might not be able to get everything or it's expensive like quinoa but potatoes have great and diverse micro's and even plain old wheat is still significantly better than white rice. Especially skin on potatoes and whole grain wheat. Maybe you think that you should just eat whole grain/brown rice but that has a high dose of mercury and arsenic and even white rice still has above average mercury/arsenic. you can reduce this partially by washing but this washes away some nutrients too, still leaves more arsenic/mercury than other common grains and even unwashed brown rice's macro's are still below average and importantly below that of wheat. Some wild rice varieties are certainly very good nutritionally but these are not cheap.

If you like eating rice dishes you can also replace these with other full grains in most dishes to get a similar chewy/grainy. It has more taste of its own but white rice is partially this tasteless because it is so low nutritionally and brown rice is similarly strong in taste.

Sure rice is cheap but in the end there are other very cheap grains which are way better and not much expensive, or just take the South-America pill and start eating beans and potato like the nutrition-gods intended