Indica rice has a less sticky texture, crispy rice, white and transparent. Rice is chewy when steamed, smells fragrant and has oily grains.

Based on the rice harvest season, it is divided into early indica rice and late indica rice. Early indica rice grains wide and thick and shorter, pinkish-white, belly white, powdery, fragile and fragile texture, viscosity is smaller than late indica rice, poor quality. Late indica rice grains are slender and slightly flattened, fine organization, generally transparent or translucent, belly white is smaller, more hard texture grains, oily, better quality.

Rice taste sweet and flat, with tonic gas, spleen and stomach, benefit essence and strong will, and the five viscera, through the blood, bright eyes and ears to stop the annoyance, thirst, diarrhea, known as "the first of the five grains", is China's main food crops, accounting for about a quarter of the area of cultivation of food crops. Half of the world's population uses rice as their staple food.

1. Rice is beneficial to the development and health of infants, can stimulate the secretion of gastric juices, help digestion, and fat absorption has a role in promoting the formation of casein in the milk powder can also promote the formation of loose and soft clots, so that it is easy to digest and absorb.

2. indica rice has the benefit of gas, yin, dry, nourishing the heart, nourishing the liver and nourish the body, benefit the spirit and strong will, and the five viscera, through the blood, ear and eyes, annoyance, thirst, diarrhea effects. Its sugar content is low, often consume indica rice, on the prevention of diabetes has a certain role. Regular consumption of indica rice, but also can prevent beriberi, eliminate oral inflammation and bad breath; stimulate the secretion of gastric juices, help digestion, and the absorption of fat has a role in promoting.

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