For rice, white, medium-grain, cooked the content of total carbohydrates is 28,9 %.
For 4 oz the value is 32,8 grams.
Data are from USDA archive.
Yes, rice is a carb. It is a grain, so it does count as a carbohydrate.
Basmati rice
rice
2 carb
There is no one low-carb diet. Stop eating food with sugars, white flour such as pasta, bread, cake, donuts, white rice, and starchy foods such as potatoes.
rice has very little protein in it is a carb mostly. but slow releasing so its a good carb
There are many low carb recipes that have chicken. One example is chicken noodle soup, with brown rice instead of the noodle. Since brown rice is a brown carb, it contains less carbs than the noodles--which are white carbs.
To be completely honest there is no effective diet that contains NO carbs or nearly no carbs but if you are on a relatively low carb diet and watch the carb sources you eat there should be no problem. Good carb sources: Brown rice instead of white rice, brown bread, nuts, seeds, chicken, meat , fish.....
The best guideline to follow for carb dieting is to follow the "No White Diet". This just means you cut out foods with sugars, white flour, white rice and potatoes. These are all high glycemic types. There are some good white foods that are low in carbs for you such as cauliflower, tofu and onions that you want to keep in your diet.
points plus: 1 cup of white rice = 5 pts.
high carb foods are things like bread, cereal, pasta, and rice.
Steamed rice is saturated with water from the steam.