Artificial rice
Artificial rice is a grain product made to resemble rice. It is usually made from broken rice, sometimes with the addition of other cereals, and often fortified with micronutrients, including minerals such as iron and zinc and vitamins, such as vitamin A and vitamin B.
Manufacture
Rice-making machines exist for sale, allowing broken rice or other ingredients to be shaped into rice-shaped pellets.[1]
Other grains
Corn rice
In North Korea, an artificial "corn rice", known as Okssal (옥쌀) or Gangnagssal (강낭쌀) was made from maize.[2]
Plastic Rice
Rice made from plastic has sometimes been reported in the media, manufactured in China and sold in the West and other countries.[3] Snopes - a website that investigates urban-legends - has determined such reports are either hoaxes or unproven, pointing out that plastic rice grains would easily be detected after cooking, and likely more expensive to produce than real rice.[4]
See also
- Golden rice, a genetically modified rice.
References
- ↑ "Artificial rice making machine". alibaba.com. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- ↑ Cwiertka, Katarzyna J. (2013). Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War: Food in Twentieth-Century Korea. Reaktion Books. p. 167. ISBN 9781780230733.
- ↑ "HC to hear plea on Chinese 'plastic' rice in India". The Times of India. 8 July 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- ↑ "Bas-Not-i - Plastic Rice From China". snopes.com. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
External links
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