Food scientists at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station have developed a new parboiling process that reduces water use up to 75 percent and improves nutrient content in rice. Annegret Jannasch ...

PARBOILING is partial cooking of rice to gelatinise the starch and harden the endosperm, making it translucent. There is also a slight change in flavour which some people prefer. The toughening ...

With different varieties of rice in the marketplace at your disposal, you might be wondering which one offers the most value for your money. In terms of health benefits, there are many reasons to ...

Contamination of rice with arsenic is a major problem in some regions of the world with high rice consumption. Now, researchers reporting in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology have ...

In this week’s Sound Bites: See what makes partially boiled rice so much healthier. Trace how long it’s been part of the Indian diet. And see how parboiling saved scores of Indian lives over a century ...

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese exporters were hoping that parboiled rice would give them a helping hand considering the difficulties faced in rice production and export. VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese ...

Parboiled rice can be a healthier option than white rice for people with diabetes and those aspiring to lose weight. If brown rice is not your thing and you want to avoid white rice too due to fear of ...

Kumbungu (N/R), March 24, GNA – The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research–Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI), in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture under the ...

Rice, a staple food for approx. 3.5 billion people across the world, is emerging as much more than a source of carbohydrates. Asia accounts for more than 90% of the world's rice production and ...

Contamination of rice with arsenic is a major problem in some regions of the world with high rice consumption. Now, researchers have found a way to reduce inorganic arsenic in rice by modifying ...