About specialty, germ rice milling
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Polished germ rice with live sprouts
Polished rice (right) is rich in protein, vitamins, minerals, and insoluble dietary fiber, which are lost in white rice. It is a living tissue with a complex composition of components that is capable of breathing.
Germ-polished rice is rice that has been polished while leaving 80% or more of the germ intact.
The bran layer is left on to preserve the insoluble dietary fiber. It's roughly 5-7 minutes old.
You can cook it in the same way as white rice, but you can also increase the amount of water by about 10% depending on your preference.
Unlike white rice, which is pure white and moist when cooked, this rice turns a light brown when cooked. If you look closely, you can see yellow dots at the tips of the grains.
This is the germ, a treasure trove of nutrients.
The germ is packed with vitamins and minerals that help the plant sprout from the seed. It germinates using the starch in the endosperm (the white rice part) as energy.
White rice has had all of its natural nutritional value removed in order to maximize its sticky sweetness and make it soft and easy to eat.
When the rice is polished, leaving about 50-30% of the grain intact, it becomes germ-polished rice. In other words, it combines the best of both brown rice and white rice.
If the rice is 5 to 7 minutes polished, it is not much different from white rice when it is freshly cooked.
As time passes, white rice maintains its stickiness. After 3 to 5 hours, which is the time it takes to eat a lunch box, there is almost no difference. (Individuals may experience different results.)
Unlike brown rice or 30% polished rice, this rice can be safely consumed by everyone, from children who have just started to grow teeth to adults with sensitive stomachs (though preference may vary).
When eating white rice, you are eating only the endosperm, which is the outer layer of brown rice that has been scraped off and is mostly starchy.
The energy and protein content is the same as brown rice and germ-polished rice, but it is clear that the nutritional value is overwhelmingly low in all categories.
However, while brown rice is rich in nutrients, its high fiber content means it takes a long time to cook and is difficult to eat.Furthermore, it lacks the sweetness and softness that can be found in white rice.
Therefore, Inazo Rice Store recommends "germ polished rice." Because the fiber (bran layer) is removed by about 50-70%, it is much easier to eat.
It also contains about 4 to 8 times the amount of vitamin E, an antioxidant (gamma oryzanol), and vitamin B1, which is essential for carbohydrate metabolism, as compared to white rice.
The recommended intake of vitamin E for an adult woman is 5.5 mg. 1.2 mg per 100 g of brown rice is an impressive figure. For white rice, this figure is 0.1 mg.