Question

Does anyone know why Minute Rice brown rice is not 0 points under the Purple Plan?  

Answer 1

Mine was and scanned 0

Comments

@yakut Mine did not  

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@gemini it May be your brand. Does it have added oils or anything. If it doesn’t scan 0 then it makes me think it’s no 0 but that’s not always correct. I hope you can get the correct information.  

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@yakut I need to check out the ingredients a little more closely, thank you  

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It has added soybean oil  

Answer 2

Yes it is. Do not scan zero point foods.  

Comments

I always scan O point foods, they come up 0, if not there must be an ingredient in them to give it points.  

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@dearman9 if it's a whole food there is no need to scan. And everything on the zero point list is a whole food.  

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I think for this one, To each their own. I like to make sure I input all food and it works for me. One time my friend and I tested it and didn’t record certain items for zero points because they were on the list. We scanned it and it was 15 points to our day when we did it. For example I know on purple plan some pasta and rice may be zero but not all rice or pasta is. When I use pasta I use whole grain Barilla because it is zero points when scanned. I’m not trying to start an argument here but when you say whole, are you talking about clean foods because some foods that may appear to be may not always that be that way.  

Answer 3

Plain brown rice scans 0 but the minute rice did not. I wonder if there are ingredients that have a point value.  

Comments

@limnetic7 look on the ingredients list on the box

Answer 4

Maybe because of the high Carb. I don’t Question the food on any of the plans, qualified dieticians do work out these plans so just follow them l say.  

Answer 5

I ate the microwave cup “Ready to Serve Brown Rice. ”

Comments

@gemini it has ingredients (other than brown rice)

Answer 6

Could it be because it has more fiber than white rice?  

Answer 7

It has oil, it does have points on purple. Regular brown rice is zero

Comments

@ceraceous And I have four packs of it  

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Oh gosh, well, with other zero pts to have , you can do it! At least you know now!  

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@ceraceous This is true!  

Answer 8

I am on purple and when scanned the minute rice, ready to serve comes up zero. Other rice is in the white rice do you come up with points, I saw something about the oils another ingredients added.  

Answer 9

It could depend where the info came from. If the item was saved by another ww member and they input the nutrition info into calculator then it would show up as having points, but if it was I put by ww it should say 0 points. The calculator cannot determine if a item is 0 points it just calculates number of points per the nutrition label.  

Answer 10

I *believe* it’s because minute brown rice isn’t considered a whole grain since they process it to make it cook quickly.  

Answer 11

It’s highly processed brown rice that cooks in 1 minute. Everything good has been removed from it.