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Published on 5th June 2017 15:31
The health and nutritional benefits of eating brown rice.
Rice is an ancient and well loved food, and it is estimated to have been consumed nearly 9000 years ago, originating in Asia. Today rice supplies half of the daily calories for half of the worlds population, and it comes as no surprise that the worlds largest producers are China, India and Indonesia.
Although it may come as a surprise to know that there are over 8,000 varieties of rice, however, rice commonly gets narrowed down to three types, short, medium and long grain rice. Short grain has the greatest percentage of starch and as a result tends to be the stickiest, long grain tends to remain separated after cooking, while medium grain sits somewhere between the two types.
Brown rice differs from white rice in that it has only the outermost layer
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