Indica rice, also known as long rice and fairy rice, is rice made of non-glutinous rice. It belongs to a special kind of rice, which is slender, beige and white, and its transparency is worse than other kinds.

When cooking indica rice, it is more suitable for making rice noodles, radish cakes or fried rice because of its strong water absorption and large expansion and relatively high rice yield. Indica rice is more than 7 mm long, not too sticky and brittle, and easily broken during processing. Its cross section is oblate, and its color is white and transparent, but it is also translucent and opaque.

Classification of indica rice

According to the harvest season of rice, it is divided into early indica rice and late indica rice. Early indica rice grains are wide and short, pink-white, big in belly, rich in powder, crisp in texture, less viscous than late indica rice, and poor in quality. Late indica rice grains are slender and slightly flat, with fine texture, generally transparent or translucent, white belly, hard grains, greater oiliness and better quality.

In the international market, some indica rice can be divided into long-grain rice and medium-grain rice according to the length of rice grains. Long-grain rice is slender, with an aspect ratio generally greater than 3, generally waxy, transparent or translucent. Crisp, oily, soft, tough, non-sticky, delicate and delicious after cooking, which is the best quality of indica rice.