Have you ever seen green rice?
in everyday life.
In addition to the white rice that is often eaten.
Black rice, purple rice, and red rice are also relatively common.
But. When faced with green rice with an attractive color.
It aroused the curiosity of the public.
Recently. A woman buys emerald green rice at a supermarket.
After cooking, it looks like a rubber bump.
I can't help but think of "technology and hard work".
So. What exactly is this rice?
Compared to ordinary rice.
Is this rice more nutritious?
in everyday life.
And how to buy high-quality rice scientifically?
Artificially granulated green bamboo rice
It is understood that this green rice is known as green bamboo rice. On an e-commerce platform, I searched for green bamboo rice as a keyword, and got more than 5,000 results, and found that its ** range was 7-20 yuan per catty.
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Randomly click on the details page of a green bamboo rice on the e-commerce platform, and descriptions such as "full of fragrance", "pure natural" and "zero additive" come into view. According to the introduction of the merchant, green bamboo rice contains more nutrients, and the light bamboo leaf powder makes the rice grains green and gives the rice a light fragrance. This type of green bamboo rice is made by mixing light bamboo leaf powder with grain flour and other raw materials. The process of making green bamboo rice is to mix rice flour, light bamboo leaf powder, spinach powder, etc., and then press it into the shape of ordinary rice. In the ingredient list of another type of green bamboo rice, it is seen that its ingredients are rice flour, spinach powder, light bamboo leaf powder, edible kudzu root powder, and water. It can be seen that the base ingredient is rice flour instead of rice.
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Judging from the ingredient list, green bamboo rice is made by grinding a variety of raw materials and mixing them, which is an artificial granulation product. Fan Zhihong, a professor at the College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering of China Agricultural University, said.
Li Zaigui, a professor at the Department of Nutrition and Health of China Agricultural University, said that from the perspective of processing technology, green bamboo rice is obtained by extrusion of starch gel formed by aging after starch gelatinization, which belongs to starch gel products.
Is green rice more nutritious? /
Crystal clear, waxy white rice is a very common staple food in life, and the starch contained in it will eventually be broken down into glucose in the human body, which is the main energy supply substance of the human body and the energy to ensure the operation of the brain**. But after the finely processed rice has been stripped of its rough husk, only starch remains. In terms of nutritional content, it is indeed relatively simple. So, is it more nutritious to synthesize green rice with other ingredients?
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In fact, looking at the ingredient list of many green rice products, the dosage of other ingredients except rice flour is not clear. At the same time, the recommended way to eat bamboo fragrant rice is to mix it with rice or other grains, and it is unknown whether these so-called nutrients can be absorbed by the human body.
Li Zaigui said that green bamboo rice, like other recycled rice (i.e. artificial rice), is made by extrusion of various raw material powders, and has appeared in the market for more than ten years, "There should be no problem in food safety". However, Li Zaigui reminds that green bamboo rice can be eaten occasionally, but if it is eaten to increase nutrition, the effect may be very limited.
In addition, one of the ingredients of green bamboo rice, light bamboo leaf powder, is light bamboo leaf extract. Fan Zhihong said that light bamboo leaves are a kind of medicinal and edible ingredients. "Medicinal and edible ingredients have certain medicinal properties, which may not be suitable for everyone, and consumers should be cautious when buying."
How to Pick Bulk Rice? /
The so-called green bamboo rice is a kind of artificial rice, which cannot completely replace rice, and still needs to be mixed with rice for steaming and eating. So, in daily life, how can you buy good rice of high quality?
Look at the belly white: the belly white is the white spot on the belly of the rice grain, the smaller the belly white, the lower the moisture, the better the maturity;The larger the belly, the higher the water content, and the less mature the growth.
Look at the hardness: the harder the rice, the higher the protein content, which is usually said to be chewy. Generally, new rice is harder than old rice, and rice with low moisture is harder than rice with high moisture. Gently tap the rice grains with an appropriate object, and do not choose those that are easily broken.
Look at the burst waist: If one or more horizontal stripes appear on the rice grain, it is burst waist rice. When popping kidney rice is eaten, it is rotten on the outside and raw on the inside, and its nutritional value is reduced. In the process of drying rice, if the method is not correct, it will produce the phenomenon of bursting waist.
Look at the new rice: the new rice is brighter and more transparent, and the color of the old rice is more yellow and gray.
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