Brown Rice
<p ><b>Brown rice</b> (or "hulled rice") is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_huller" title="Rice huller" >unmilled</a> or partly milled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice" title="Rice" >rice</a>, a kind of whole, natural grain. It has a mild nutty flavor, is chewier and more nutritious than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_rice" title="White rice" >white rice</a>, but goes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancidification" title="Rancidification" >rancid</a> more quickly because the germ—which is removed to make white rice—contains fats that can spoil.<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_rice#cite_note-0" >[1]</a></sup> Any rice, including long-grain, short-grain, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_rice" title="Sticky rice" class="mw-redirect" >sticky rice</a>, may be eaten as brown rice.
In much of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia" title="Asia" >Asia</a>, brown rice (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language" title="Chinese language" >Chinese</a>: 糙米; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin" title="Pinyin" >pinyin</a>: <em>cāomǐ</em>; literally "rough rice"; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language" >Korean</a>: 현미;<i>hyeonmi</i>; literally "black rice"; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language" title="Japanese language" >Japanese</a>: 玄米; <i>genmai</i>; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_language" title="Thai language" >Thai</a>: ข้าวกล้อง; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_language" title="Vietnamese language" >Vietnamese</a>: <i>gạo lứt</i>;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagalog_language" title="Tagalog language" >Tagalog</a>: <i>pináwa</i>) is associated with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty" title="Poverty" >poverty</a> and wartime shortages, and in the past was rarely eaten except by the sick, the elderly and as a cure for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constipation" title="Constipation" >constipation</a>.<sup class="Template-Fact" >[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" >citation needed</a></i>]</sup> This traditionally denigrated kind of rice is now more expensive than common white rice, partly due to its relatively low supply and difficulty of storage and transport.
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<li ><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fao.org/rice2004/en/pdf/ito.pdf" >Germinated brown rice and rice bread</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Agriculture_Organization" title="Food and Agriculture Organization" >FAO</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Year_of_Rice" title="International Year of Rice" >International Year of Rice</a> conference in 2004</li>
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