AintNoSunshine wrote:
>

> It's not a generic cooker at all, though. Ours has two brown rice
> settings. One is for Gaba brown rice. Do you know about that? I
> didn't until I got this cooker. If brown rice is cooked at very low
> temperatures, it retains a compound called GABA, which is used in our
> brains and is a part of the serotonin regulating system. Some people
> give it for depression. Lots of people buy it at healthfood stores as
> supplements, but brown rice is the chief natural source for it.
> Apparently, in Japan, cooking GABA-brown rice is very popular.
> Anyway, our Zoji has a setting for that, and while it takes hours, it
> is incredibly good and we feel healthy. The regular brown rice
> setting is the *only* other way my family will eat brown rice - both
> settings provide fluffy, wonderful brown rice, perfect every time.
>



Apparently, the Zoji only does GABA in the top priced induction model -
$289 at Amazon. Are there any cheaper models that do GABA? I thought
Panasonic might, but I can't find anything on their site.