Today is Paul Jaminet's birthday and you post something like this that will surely make him cry? Shame on you.

"sometimes I catch myself micromanaging every little detail and it causes stress :/ ..But don't we all do that? " No. We don't. Stop it. If you are stressing over the size of your grain of rice you have gone terribly wrong somewhere. Back up and try again. ;-)

I don't notice any difference; this is wayyy too down in the weeds for me! I'm curious to see the other answers; I'm no science person, but I cannot fathom how it could possibly make a difference. What did you find in your googling? Do you notice anything yourself?

I don't notice much difference, perhaps because I eat my rice in a meal with protein and fats. But I've started cooking basmati rice both for its lower GI and because it smells so good when it's cooking! That said, I agree with Shari ... stress is counterproductive. I wouldn't stress over it ;).

I react way more to whole grain rice than to polished rice. Polished rice is actually relatively ok for me (but I haven't had it since going paleo a few months ago).

Also, basmati was worse than jasmin rice, so for a long time I only ate jasmin. And it's interesting that one does seem to be more polished than the other, if looking very close.

It's possible that they could be polished differently by different producers, but I haven't noticed that since I haven't tried many brands.

I suspect it was the amount of phytic acid or the mycotoxins in the whole grains that were my main problem with grains, although I also seem to react to soy. Peanuts and other things were also triggers of my skin problems.

Curious to know if anyone else has done a n=1 rice experiment too.

i never thought about it. but since i just go for whatever variety seems appealing (i live in a primarily indian neighborhood with access to HUGE varieties of rice of all different colors and sizes), i'm assuming i have no adverse reaction to either type.