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How many kinds of rice are there?
There are six kinds of rice, namely rice, black rice, glutinous rice, brown rice, millet and coix seed.

1, rice is the finished product of rice after washing, hulling, milling and finishing. Rice embryo and aleurone layer contain nearly 64% of rice nutrition and more than 90% of nutrients needed by human body, which are the main foods of southerners.

2. Black rice is a processed product of black rice, which belongs to indica rice or japonica rice. It is a characteristic variety formed by long-term cultivation of Gramineae rice. The appearance of black rice grains is rectangular, the rice husk is grayish brown, and the grain types are indica rice and japonica rice. Black rice is non-waxy rice.

3. Glutinous rice is rice with glutinous rice hulled. It is called glutinous rice in the south of China, but it is usually called glutinous rice in the north. Glutinous rice is the main raw material for making glutinous rice snacks, such as zongzi, eight-treasure porridge and various desserts, and also the main raw material for brewing glutinous rice wine (sweet rice wine). Glutinous rice contains protein, fat, sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid and starch. It is a kind of food that warms and strengthens the body. It has the effects of invigorating the middle energizer, invigorating the spleen and nourishing the stomach, and stopping sweating, and has a certain relieving effect on anorexia, abdominal distension and diarrhea.

4. Brown rice is a kind of rice produced by rice processing. After shelling, some outer tissues remain, such as cortex, aleurone layer and germ. The above-mentioned outer tissues are rich in nutrition, and vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber are richer than white rice, so brown rice has always been regarded as healthy food.

5. Xiaomi is also called glutinous rice, millet and millet. It is rich in protein, fat, sugar, vitamin b2, nicotinic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients. Because millet is easily digested and absorbed by human body, it is called "healthy rice" by nutrition experts.

6. Coix lachryma-jobi, also known as Coix lachryma-jobi, is the seed of Coix lachryma-jobi, a gramineous plant, which grows in warm and humid ten sides and valleys and is known as the "king of gramineous plants in the world" because of its high nutritional value; In Europe, it is called "food for life and health"; In Japan, it is listed as an anti-cancer food. It is cool in nature, sweet and light in taste, and enters the spleen, lung and kidney meridians, which is beneficial to water and spleen, removing arthralgia, clearing heat and expelling pus.