Yes. River rice and glutinous rice can be used to porridge, the two are not good or bad points, boiled out of the consistency are almost the same, the taste is more glutinous, containing nutrients is not a big difference, the specific choice of river rice or glutinous rice to porridge can be based on their own preferences to see.

Glutinous rice is divided into indica glutinous rice and round-grained glutinous rice, and indica glutinous rice is called river rice, so river rice and glutinous rice is not the same, river rice is just a kind of glutinous rice, simply put, glutinous rice can be river rice, but river rice is not necessarily glutinous rice, both can be used to do the cake, rice cake and other ingredients.

Long glutinous rice is actually indica glutinous rice, also known as river rice, long, thin grains, the color is white, sticky strong, the taste will be glutinous, generally used to do hair cake, rice cake more. Round glutinous rice is Japonica glutinous rice, rice grain is slightly short round, the color is white opaque, viscosity relative to the river rice will be relatively poor, can be used to do rice, dumplings and so on.