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Rice bran oil is the oil extracted from the hard outer brown layer of rice called bran. It is known for its high smoke point of 232 °C (450 °F) and mild flavor, making it suitable for high-temperature cooking methods such as stir frying and deep frying .
Bran is often used to enrich breads (notably muffins) and breakfast cereals, especially for the benefit of those wishing to increase their intake of dietary fiber. Bran may also be used for pickling as in the tsukemono of Japan. Rice bran in particular finds many uses in Japan, where it is known as nuka (糠; ぬか).
Rice bran solubles contains about 15-40% fat, 0-25% dietary fiber, 0-15% protein, and 25-80% carbohydrates. [4] Concerns have been raised about the levels of arsenic in rice bran solubles. [5] [6] Rice naturally accumulates arsenic from the soil as it grows, with rice bran having higher levels than white rice. [7]
Rice. Short or medium grain white rice. Regular (non-sticky) rice is called uruchi-mai. Mochi rice (glutinous rice)-sticky rice, sweet rice; Genmai (brown rice) Rice bran (nuka) – not usually eaten itself, but used for pickling, and also added to boiling water to parboil tart vegetables; Arare – toasted brown rice grains in genmai cha and ...
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Along with bran, germ is often a by-product of the milling [3] that produces refined grain products. Cereal grains and their components, such as wheat germ oil , [ 4 ] rice bran oil , and maize bran, [ 5 ] may be used as a source from which vegetable oil is extracted, or used directly as a food ingredient.
Rice husk ash has long been used in ceramic glazes in rice growing regions in the Far East, e.g. China and Japan. [2] Being about 95% silica, it is an easy way of introducing the necessary silica into the glaze, and the small particle size helps with an early melt of the glaze.
Brown rice (malt) syrup, also known as rice syrup or rice malt, is a sweetener which is rich in compounds categorized as sugars and is derived by steeping cooked rice starch with saccharifying enzymes to break down the starches, followed by straining off the liquid and reducing it by evaporative heating until the desired consistency is reached.