Gluten Free? Big deal.
Also worth a read: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
Also worth a read: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
Also, have you had Quinoa? That shit is delicious and easy to cook. Throw it in a rice cooker, add some water, wait 15m - BOOM - tasty nom noms, no additives required.
Rice is generally pretty boring and you need to add something to it (Basmati smells nice, but still tastes pretty bland, short grain / Japanese style rice has at least some taste, but nothing interesting). It really doesn't add much to anything nutritionally either.
Wheat and corn is in fucking everything, so when you finally do eat corn or wheat it tastes like nothing because your goddamn peanut butter is hydrogenated corn syrup anyway.
Personally, I can't wait until quinoa is everywhere. It looks a lot more interesting than trying to invest in making better corn or wheat at this point!
I'd say that's the problem it's trendy to talk about gluten and be on a paleo diet and it turns people off.
It seems a very small percentage of the population has celiac disease or Crohn's from what I can find it's 0.75% and 0.1% respectively of the general population of various countries that track it. Although I do realize you don't have to be born with either disease you they can develop either or both later in life and sometimes not even show symptoms.
And since you're using a cooker, do you have the cheapo one, or a high-end cooker that can do slow cooks? The slower it cooks the more flavor it tends to have, IMHO.
But yeah, unless you're doing say, basmati brown rice (lowest glycemic load), rice isn't exactly densely nutritious compared to it's calorie/glycemic load.