A couple months ago while looking for experimental (and safe) natural remedies for my multiple sclerosis condition I came across a couple superfoods called Risotriene and 7 Essentials (the latter of which also contains Risotriene). Risotriene is [rather expensive] stabilized rice bran. The brown stuff that gets shaved off of rice when producing white rice is [supposedly] one of the most nutritious food sources on the planet, and that’s what this stuff is.

I bought these. The 7 Essentials actually turned out to be really good when blended with ice and Zola. It was like an uber-healthy Jamba Juice. Unfortunately, I don’t drink Zola anymore because they have some serious quality control issues and half of my last case of Zola was fermented. So that leaves me with just the Risotriene since it doesn’t require drink.

The problem with the Risotriene, aside from the price, is that it’s both raw-edible and just-short-of-gagging disgusting in taste. It tastes like powdered sugar, chalk, and ground-up multivitamins all mixed together.  I’ve tried being creative with this stuff but can’t seem to make it actually good. A few things I’ve tried include putting some on a corner piece of a DiGiorno pizza (nasty, the Risotriene tasted too sweet and acidic versus the cheese and crust), straight in boiling water (didn’t even consume it, was testing solubility), straight in milk (tolerable but not fun), in a 7 Essentials blend (was fine), and, tonight, directly on the tongue (*gag*).

What I’d like to know is, can this stuff actually be made to taste good? I suppose if the 7 Essentials has it, and 7 Essentials isn’t too severely untasty, I can just take the 7 Essentials. But such a small part of 7 Essentials is Risotriene that I don’t think suffices as a Risotriene serving. So I’d like to know, how do you eat the stuff?

I’m considering trying it with meals with white rice that I normally find very delicious. Healthy people often tend to avoid meals with white rice because white rice is nowhere near as healthy as brown rice, but if the difference between brown rice and white rice is, more or less, the bran, then maybe white rice with Risotriene is just as good as brown rice. It should actually be a lot better, since a scoop of Risotriene has a lot more bran than a meal of brown rice.