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so today we’re going to compare popcorn

with the puffed rice cakes now of course

we’re not going to talk about which one

is keto friendly because you already

know that both of them are not keto

friendly but when I was 16 years old I

got a job at a theater and I was

officially the popcorn maker I would

make unbelievably delicious popcorn and

I headed down to a science I would never

burn it it tasted delicious

it was non-gmo back then and we I think

we cooked it with peanut oil and at the

end of the night I would fill a garbage

bag full of popcorn bring it home and my

dad and I would eat the entire thing

within probably two nights so I ate it a

tremendous amount of popcorn I loved it

but I don’t need popcorn anymore but I

do know that a lot of people crave it

they love it but let’s just talk about

the difference between popcorn versus

rice cakes if we look at the glycemic

index which is an index that determines

how fast your blood glucose is elevated

okay so the glycemic index for popcorn

is 79 so that’s pretty high but the

glycemic index for rice cake is 82 much

worse now if we just take let’s say 3.5

ounces which is a hundred grams it’s not

that much you can see it contains a lot

of carbs 78 grams of carbs if we minus

the 15 grams of fiber it comes out to 63

grams of net carbs so right there that

exceeds the 50 grams if you’re on the

ketogenic diet so it’s very difficult to

eat any amount of popcorn and stay in

ketosis and the other problem is that it

turns into sugar so fast even a small

amount is going to affect your blood

Sugar’s so when you’re on the ketogenic

diet the types of carbs that you should

have shouldn’t be the ones that are high

on the glycemic index now when we do

with rice cakes we have a whole lot of

nothing because it doesn’t have any

fiber it has basically zero nutrition

it’s low fat though right

it’s pure starchy carbs with some sugar

so this is really gonna spike your blood

Sugar’s actually a lot more than popcorn

now most of the corn like 95% is GM oh

okay unless you’re doing organic and if

you’re going to the movies they’ll put

some type of butter flavoring on it

which is a chemical that potentially

could lead to a lung disease so it has

some side effects so it’s not just the

popcorn it’s what they put on the

popcorn the so called butter sometimes

it’s trans fats and some people eat the

caramelized popcorn which has the sugar

in it so all these things add to the

glycemic index spike and of course then

you have the oil that the popcorn is

cooked in if cottonseed canola corn oil

soy oil they’re all GMO Americans

consume a lot of popcorn like 60 quarts

per year per person there are traces

amount of nutrients in popcorn but the

intense heat through cooking definitely

destroys a good portion of the

phytonutrients now if we get to rice

cakes

we have arsenic rice contains arsenic

also the puffed rice as in cereal or

those puff rice cakes contains a Locsin

now there’s an interesting book by a guy

by the name of Paul stit entitled

beating the food giants and pulsed it

was a food biochemist and he would do

experiments on these different cereals

and in this book he talked about when

you heat rice and you puff it it

releases this poison alloxan which is

very toxic to rodents like mice and if

you look up alloxan and animal studies

it shows that it can induce diabetes

type 1 now I realize that these are

animal studies not human studies and

there is no studies that show that

alloxan has any effect on humans now in

summary if we compare rice cakes to

popcorn they both have some major

disadvantages but if you were going to

do organic popcorn without this stuff

right here

popcorn might be slightly better than

rice cakes alright thanks for watching

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