1, Japonica rice, Japonica rice is mainly produced in China's North China, Northeast and Southern Jiangsu, etc., the rice grain is generally oval close to the round, the grain is plump and plump, the surface is bright, translucent, the taste is better, the Northeast rice, pearl rice, paddy rice, long grain, Akita Komachi and so on belong to the Japonica rice. Chinese medicine believes that japonica rice taste sweet, sex flat, can replenish the gas, spleen and stomach, in addition to thirst and diarrhea. Japonica rice is best suited for cooking thin rice, sticky and not greasy and refreshing, can promote blood circulation to prevent high blood pressure; gastric problems, constipation, hemorrhoids have a certain effect.

2, indica rice, indica rice is China's largest production of a kind of rice, to Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan and other provinces as the main producing areas. Indica type longer, elongated or oblong, color white transparent or translucent, viscous small, easy to break when processing, hard grain, high rate of rice. Indica rice according to the harvest season is divided into early indica rice and late indica rice, early indica rice grains are wide and thick and shorter, powder white brittle and fragile, sticky small, poor quality. Common indica rice are: silk seedling rice, cat's teeth rice, Thai rice. Indica rice viscosity is not as good as japonica rice, cooked out of thin rice viscosity is not enough, so indica rice is suitable for cooking dry rice.

3, glutinous rice. Southern China known as glutinous rice, the north is more known as river rice, because of its sticky sticky, often used to make sticky snacks, such as rice dumplings, rice porridge, rice cakes, dumplings, dumplings, etc.. Glutinous rice is divided into long glutinous rice and round glutinous rice, long glutinous rice that is indica glutinous rice, grown in the south, long grains of rice, the color of pink and white, opaque; round glutinous rice that is round-grained glutinous rice, grown in the north, the shape of a short round, white opaque, viscosity than the long glutinous rice is slightly worse. Glutinous rice is a warm food, with a tonic gas, spleen and stomach effects, but glutinous rice is not easy to digest, weak spleen and stomach should not eat more; diabetes or dampness and heat fire people do not eat or eat less.