China is a big country of agricultural production, rice is an indispensable staple food on the table. But China's rice is not just a kind of rice is very much more, just from the appearance of the shape can be divided into indica, round-grained rice and glutinous rice. Glutinous rice we are more familiar with, we focus on the difference between indica and japonica rice, indica shape is long and thin, the taste of hard, belongs to the hybrid varieties; and japonica rice is more round, sticky taste sticky, eat a little bit of sweetness, but also now we are more often eaten a kind of rice.

a, indica and japonica rice shape difference

indica rice is also known as long rice, because of its shape of elongated, belongs to the hybrid varieties, eat up the texture is a little hard, cooked particles are clear, easier to bloat the pot, the general canteen like to use this kind of rice. Indica rice is mainly produced in China's Guangdong, Thailand, Taiwan, India and Vietnam all produce this kind of rice. This kind of rice is mostly used for fried rice or ground into rice paste to make rice kuey teow, turnip cake and other foods; Japonica rice is oval in shape, mainly produced in the northeast of China, Japan, Korea and other places. Because of its high starch, Japonica rice is very glutinous and sticky when cooked, tastes slightly sweet, and is generally preferred for porridge, sushi, and rice stews.

Second, indica and japonica rice nutritional differences

While indica and japonica rice are both rice, but they are not only different shapes, nutritional differences are also very big. The protein content of indica rice is a little higher than that of japonica rice, but the gelatin content of japonica rice is much higher than that of indica rice. Indica and round-grained rice are very rich in nutrients, round-grained rice has lower blood pressure, regulate blood lipids, spleen and stomach effects; Can rice has a tonic in the gas, warm stomach to help the effect of Yang.

Indica and Japonica rice are very common in our daily life, both have very good nutritional composition. Southern people prefer to eat indica rice, can be used for fried rice and pot rice and a variety of rice paste to do the snacks, with the role of warming the stomach to help the sun; northern people prefer to eat round-grained rice, with viscosity is more suitable for porridge consumption, with the health of the spleen and stomach, the role of regulating blood pressure and blood lipids.