The characteristics of the different
1: the original food species
In botany, rice belongs to this family of rice, belongs to the common cultivated rice subgenus in the common rice subspecies, is divided into indica rice and japonica rice. Indica rice is processed from indica rice, japonica rice is processed from japonica rice.
Indica rice grain shape is longer, length is more than 3 times the width, flat, velvet short and sparse, generally awnless, thinner hull, belly white larger, less hard grain, easy to break when processing, lower rate of rice. Japonica rice grain shape larger short cut, length is about twice the width, velvet long and dense, awn longer, thicker rice husk, white small or no, hard grain, high rate of rice.
2: appearance and shape
indica rice is generally long oval or elongated, japonica rice grain is oval, although indica rice is also oval-shaped, but not as round as japonica rice.
3: the requirements of broken rice
Indica rice processing is easy to produce broken rice, so the requirements of broken rice content is different. The standard for broken rice for fine round-grained rice is no more than 15%, while the standard for broken rice for superior indica rice is no more than 30%.
4: Nutritional composition and taste
The nutritional composition and taste of indica and japonica rice are very different. The protein content of indica rice is more than 8%, japonica rice is only 7%; the gelatin consistency of japonica rice is required to be more than 70, indica rice is only required to be more than 60. so japonica rice is obviously much stickier than indica rice.
Different roles
1: indica rice is suitable for dry rice, japonica rice is suitable for thin rice. Japonica straight-chain starch and protein content than indica rice is less than indica rice, not as fluffy and delicious as indica rice, indica rice gel consistency is not enough to cook out of the thin rice is not sticky enough.
2: indica and japonica rice and other drugs combined with a good medicinal effect. Japonica rice has some antihypertensive and lipid-lowering effects, while indica rice has the effect of warming the stomach and helping the sun. With the progress of science and technology, the deep value of indica and japonica rice will be further developed.
Source Baidu.