This parcel cheats. A leaf-wrapped mound can look modest, yet its tightly packed, gelatinized grains cling together after cooking and demand more chewing before the stomach receives them. You taste softness. Your gut receives a dense bolus, not a light cloud of separate grains.The rice gets blamed unfairly. Sticky rice contains much amylopectin, a branched starch that gives cooked grains their glu...More