No, blood glutinous rice belongs to the glutinous rice category, edible taste has a strong sticky glutinous, taste sweet, often in the dessert to see its figure, and black rice can be used for medicinal purposes, the taste of the entrance there is a light medicinal flavor, slightly sweet, the grain quality is divided into glutinous and non-glutinous two categories, the taste of the relative blood glutinous rice, the glutinous nature of the poorer.

Blood glutinous rice is rice with a purplish-red seed coat, because the rice is glutinous, so it is called blood glutinous. Natural blood glutinous rice after soaking in warm water, due to the red pigment of the seed coat is slowly dissolved by the water solution, will gradually appear purplish-red water solution, with the extension of time, the red color is more and more intense.

Counterfeit blood glutinous rice is made from inferior rice, colored by purplish-red pigment. The most obvious difference is that after soaking in water, the water quality becomes red significantly faster than the real blood glutinous rice, more than a few washes will reveal the original shape of white rice, and no red seed coat appears after boiling.

Black rice for black rice processing products, belonging to the glutinous rice category, is a class of characteristic varieties formed by the graminaceous plant rice after a long period of cultivation. The appearance of long oval rice grain, rice husk gray-brown, grain type indica, japonica two kinds of grain quality into glutinous and non-glutinous two categories.

Brown rice is black or black-brown, nutritious, food, high medicinal value, in addition to porridge can also make a variety of nutritious food and brewing, known as the "black pearl" and "the world's king of rice" reputation. The most representative of Shaanxi Yangxian black rice, since ancient times, "medicine rice", "tribute rice", "life rice" reputation.