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Utility of Rice

TABLE 1- Composition and nutritional value of milling fractions of IR32 brown rice at 14% moisture

Rice

fraction

Crude

protein

(%Nx6.25)

Neutral

detergent

fibre

(%)

Crude

fat

(%)

Crude

ash

(%)

Total

P

(%)

Energy

value

(kJ/g)

Lysine

(g/16 g N)

Amino

acid

score

(%)

Brown rice

8.5

2.5

2.3

0.8

0.14

15.9

3.8

66

Undermilled rice

8.3

1.8

1.5

0.6

0.14

15.7

3.6

62

Milled rice

8.1

0.8

0.7

0.4

0 08

15.5

3.6

62

LSD

0.3

0.3

0.4

0.4

0.06

ns

0.1

 

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