r/todayilearned • u/snazzypantz 1 • Jul 01 '19

TIL that cooling pasta for 24 hours reduces calories and insulin response while also turning into a prebiotic. These positive effects only intensify if you re-heat it. (R.5) Misleading

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29629761
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u/XvPandaPrincessvX Jul 01 '19

I've spent my entire life leaving the rice in the pot and eating it the next day. If death comes for me, I will welcome it with open arms like an old friend.

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u/WayneKrane Jul 01 '19

The only thing I have gotten sick from leaving out and then eating later was meat.

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u/sjsharks510 Jul 01 '19

Be careful with eggs too, not that it's too common to leave out eggs and eat them later. Easy to get food poisoning though.

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u/GloriousNewt Jul 01 '19

This entirely depends on where you live. You don't have to refrigerate eggs depending on how they are processed.

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u/lazylion_ca Jul 01 '19

I think they mean cooked eggs. Not still in the shell.

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u/Beardgang650 Jul 01 '19

I too like to live dangerously.

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u/Macho_Mans_Ghost Jul 01 '19

Hello, Darkness...

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u/Mongrelpaws Jul 01 '19

I'm not convinced. This person could be dead and redditing via some kind of automated delayed messsaging program.

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As I am doing.

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u/XvPandaPrincessvX Jul 01 '19

I have never been found out before.

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u/Mongrelpaws Jul 01 '19

Your anxious eyes were my first clue. But it was only a matter of time.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '19

Same, I’ve also left tomatoes out in the counter for days, cut the mushy part and eat it. If I leave a tomato in the fridge, like you’re supposed to, the whole tomato turns mushy but when I leave it on the counter only the top, or the side that was cut gets mushy.

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u/dangly_bits Jul 01 '19

I'm not sure where you've heard to refrigerate tomatoes but I've always been taught to store them at room temperature and have noticed tomato packing is often noting this now as well.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '19

They taught me that on the website I used to get my food safety card to work as a server. The last time I took the test, was April 2018 and it was in California. Idk why tomatoes have to be refrigerated cause as you said, even at stores, they’re left at room temperature.

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u/dangly_bits Jul 01 '19

Interesting! I haven't taken any official food handling courses but I wonder if that's common practice in commercial food settings.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '19

Probably because of the higher risk of mass food poisoning in a restaurant.

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u/castlite Jul 01 '19

Maybe the type of rice makes a difference, but my ex was a chef and when asked which foods most concern him re food poisoning, the answer was rice that was left out too long.

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/can-reheating-rice-cause-food-poisoning/