article_snippet: Cooking rice with coconut oil, and then cooling rice for 12 hours in the fridge, more than halved the number of calories in the rice when rice was eaten.
article_snippet: Scientists have discovered that adding coconut oil to rice and cooling coconut oil in the fridge for 12 hours cuts the calorie content in half .
article_snippet: First, The Sri Lankan researchers added a teaspoon of coconut oil to boiling water, adding half a cup (105g) of rice, and then either simmering half a cup (105g) of rice for 40 minutes, or boiling half a cup (105g) of rice for 20 to 25 minutes.