> White rice is basically pure carbs with barely any nutrients.
You should fact check your intuitions about nutrition on cronometer.com.
2 cups of cooked white rice have 17% of the days nutrients for 20% (400) of the calories (2000cal/day). 47% of the day's iron, 33% of the day's folate. 20-30% of almost every B-vitamin. 25% copper, 65% manganese, 43% selenium, 14% of the day's zinc.
Also look at 500g of boiled potato. Someone in this thread called it pure carbs. Ok, pure carbs that give you 27% of the day's nutrients for just 18% of the day's calories? That's a great deal.
Other than folate and B12, the B vitamins are the most common nutrients, they're not really a point in rice's favor. And other than manganese, the other figures you quote are MUCH higher than the sources I'm looking at. Are you sure you're not looking at enriched rice, or an unusually nutrient-rich strain? Because rice absolutely is the least nutritive staple crop of the ones commonly consumed in the first world.
You should fact check your intuitions about nutrition on cronometer.com.
2 cups of cooked white rice have 17% of the days nutrients for 20% (400) of the calories (2000cal/day). 47% of the day's iron, 33% of the day's folate. 20-30% of almost every B-vitamin. 25% copper, 65% manganese, 43% selenium, 14% of the day's zinc.
Also look at 500g of boiled potato. Someone in this thread called it pure carbs. Ok, pure carbs that give you 27% of the day's nutrients for just 18% of the day's calories? That's a great deal.