In ancient China, wild rice was called Diaohu.

Wild rice

Wild rice, also known as wild rice, wild rice, wild rice, wild rice, and anhu, is the caryopsin of the Chinese wild rice in the family Oryzae of the family Poaceae. , has high nutritional value.

Wild rice has high nutritional value and is edible. Although wild rice is rarely eaten as food nowadays, the history of eating wild rice can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago. As one of the six grains eaten by emperors. Wild rice also contains yaffin, which is a natural dye that can be used as a food coloring agent. Its pigment is safe and harmless to the human body.

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As an emergent plant, Chinese wild rice often grows on waterside, swamps, and wetlands with a water depth of 1.0 to 1.5 meters. It likes soil rich in humus. It is common Companion species include cattails, water onions, etc. The rod is strong, upright and tall, with many joints.

Roots are divided into underground stems and aboveground stems. The underground stems are creeping rhizomes and the aboveground stems have adventitious roots with developed root systems and strong tillering ability. Young leaves and true leaves are lanceolate, with thick leaf sheaths and membranous ligules. The flower spike is born at the top and is a monoecious cone-shaped inflorescence. The female flowers are in the upper inflorescence and the male flowers are in the lower part.

The caryopses are dark green or light brown, about 10mm long. The seeds have inconsistent maturity stages, are easy to fall off, and are difficult to collect. The seeds are stubborn. The fruit of wild rice is composed of chaff (husk) and caryopsis.

The chaff of wild rice is composed of outer and inner glumes that are hooked together to wrap the caryopsis. The husk is light brown or light gray, with multiple light veins longitudinally. The combination of caryopsis and caryopsis is looser than that of rice. The caryopsis after shelling is wild rice.

Chinese wild rice is a whole grain and has high nutritional value. It is not only rich in protein, essential amino acids and fatty acids, vitamins and various trace elements, but also has a reasonable proportion of amino acids.

Chinese wild rice also contains a large number of biologically active substances, such as resistant starch, dietary fiber, flavonoids, saponins, anthocyanins, phytosterols, etc. In addition, wild rice has the effect of regulating abnormal blood lipids and blood sugar, and its nutritional and health care functions have been widely recognized and used at home and abroad.