Japonica rice is delicious.

Indica rice is high in straight-chain starch, which in turn leads to its viscosity is relatively low, the taste is relatively poor; while japonica rice is high in branched-chain starch, rich in viscosity, and can be completed into a thick paste after cooking, eating is mouth and mouth. This means that japonica rice is more delicious than indica rice.

Japonica Rice

Japonica rice is a type of rice, a common staple food. It is cultivated throughout China, with a planting history of more than 6,900 years, and is one of the specialties of Chinese food culture. It is mainly produced in northeast China. Japonica rice is rice milled from Japonica-type non-glutinous rice.

The grains of rice are generally oval or round, plump and fat, nearly round in cross-section, the ratio of length to width is less than two, the color is waxy white, transparent or semi-transparent, the texture is hard and resilient, and the viscosity and oiliness after cooking is large, soft and tasty, but the rate of rice is low.

Japonica rice according to the harvest season, divided into early Japonica rice and late Japonica rice. Early Japonica rice was translucent, belly white larger, less hard grain, rice quality is poor. Evening round-grained rice was white or wax white, white belly small, hard grain, quality is superior. Japonica rice yield is much lower than indica rice. It contains a large amount of carbohydrates, about 79%, and is the main source of calories. Japonica rice, is the seed kernel of japonica rice.

Japonica rice is thicker and shorter, the Guangdong people called "fat rice", cooking congee and rice is relatively soft, common northeastern rice, pearl rice, jiangsu round rice belongs to japonica rice.

Japonica rice has early, middle and late points, northern Japonica cool, southern Japonica warm; red Japonica hot, white Japonica cool; new Japonica hot, old Japonica cool. Congee is the most nutritious, suitable for both young and old. Black rice, crystal soft, produced in Chenggu County, Shaanxi Province.

Black rice is the treasure of China's rice. According to scientists, black rice contains 16 kinds of amino acids and iron, molybdenum, zinc and other trace elements and vitamins B1, B12 and other nutrients, protein content is 50% higher than ordinary rice.