Where can I buy bran in Udon?

I need to start sprinkling bran into my daily breakfast of Isaan rice porridge.

I've tried the two vegetarian restaurants/stores that I know, but they don't sell it.

Does anyone know where I can buy a bag of bran, please?

Tesco's supermarket sells Kellogs All Bran. OT has it for breakfast every morning.
According to the box it's 86% bran.

OT..........

Only 14% Sugar then-----------

Thanks, guys, but I can't eat any processed food or anything with sugar added to it (but I do allow myself a cheeky beer or three sometimes and always suffer for it the next day!).

Has anyone seen any bran in any of the supermarkets here?

Are there any healthfood shops in Udon?

Help!!

If you find one with bran, let me know - they may have rolled oats (oatmeal), the real, unprocessed type, not the "quick", "instant", whatever mush. I've looked all over Udon for a year with no luck for this simple item. Only place I've found so far is Nong Khai Direct at the bridge, which sells small bags of items they (re-)package themselves, and not too cheap.

So you gotta boil it 5 whole more minutes, good god! In order to eat real fiber. Jeez, gimme a break.

What a difference it makes eating the real thing! You're right, Jai, and you know it too, Fred: forget about popular cereals that pretend to be healthy - sugar is through the roof in 99% of them, including those pseudo-healthy granola "power" bars, with peanut butter, and honey, and the real modern killer: High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). Energy drinks are another nightmare. Could go on & on, but won't.

It shouldn't be so hard to eat properly, but they don't make it easy. If it doesn't taste like a sweet treat, it doesn't sell, so yeah, they don't make it. Someone should.

I was reading somwehere the other day that diabetes and obesity were almost non-existant in Thailand 15 to 20 years ago when most people ate normal healthy diets.

Both diabetes and obesity have rocketed in this country since the introduction of all of the crap processed, refined and snack & junk foods.

Sorry ladies, but this is undoubtedly the reason why so many western women are overweight.

So Fred...what happened to the fat Western men around Thailand? What's their excuse?

fredwilliams wrote:I was reading somwehere the other day that diabetes and obesity were almost non-existant in Thailand 15 to 20 years ago when most people ate normal healthy diets.

Both diabetes and obesity have rocketed in this country since the introduction of all of the crap processed, refined and snack & junk foods.

Sorry ladies, but this is undoubtedly the reason why so many western women are overweight.

You have to add Turburculosis to that list, Its rife in our village together with Diabetes.

Kevro

Any rice mill can sell you rice bran.

lajolla: beer has always been our excuse!

kevro: and alcoholism!

dbriggins: got any company names and addresses please, mate?

fredwilliams wrote:dbriggins: got any company names and addresses please, mate?

At the village level, it's the place all the farmers haul their sacks of field rice to. Rice bran is called Ram. (รำ)

In Udon, ask at a hardware store that sells farming stuff like Khwai lek and such...They can point you in the right direction. The rice mills sell bran to livestock farmers because it's high in protein. So a big commercial place will tend to sell it in pretty big bags.

Something else you can do is eat red rice, or Khao daeng. Thai's kind of sniff at it because it's "poor man's rice" and it's what they serve in prison, but it's red because the bran is still on the rice.

Also look for "khao klong" ('o' as in 'oh'), sold many places. Very healthy, high fiber, etc.

More Thais are being put on this - against their will of course since they're addicted to sticky (glutinous) rice here - by their doctors as they become diabetic.

My Thai aunt just had her leg amputated, cause: diabetes. Blood sugar through the roof as more and more Thais' is now, due to combination of increasingly poor diet, sticky (and white) rice, plus lack of activity, which saved them in times past, as they burnt up the sugar being active and working, which they are doing less and less of these days.

dbriggins wrote:[



Something else you can do is eat red rice, or Khao daeng. Thai's kind of sniff at it because it's "poor man's rice" and it's what they serve in prison, but it's red because the bran is still on the rice.

There are many types of Thai red rice. This is one. It is very expensive. It is a red variant of the hommali, fragrant rice .

The rice normally served in prison is generally known as brown rice although in appearance it appears quite white

dbriggins: many thanks!

And for all you fibre fans out there you can buy purple rice from the store at the back of the veggie restaurant on Ponpisai Road. A two minute stroll from Ban Hoy market, it's on the right. Closed Sundays. They also sell freshly cooked brown rice [kao gong] in 10 baht bags. The restaurant itself is excellent and they've usually sold all of their tasty but cheap food by mid-afternoon. Many times by midday. And their fresh vegetable juices are a delight!

The veggie restaurant near the Clock Tower also sells freshly cooked brown rice in 10 baht bags and their's is mixed with wild rice. They replace it with white Thai Jasmine when they've sold out for the day, which is a shame because you can get brown Thai Jasmine in great big bags from Big C and other supermarkets. Their restaurant food is also tasty and cheap although sometimes all of the dishes on offer are spicy. Open seven days a week, all prepared dishes are sold out by mid-afternoon.