Broken rice: Difference between revisions

'''Broken rice''' is fragments of rice grains, broken in the field, during drying, during transport, or byduring[[milling yield|milling]].<ref name=long>{{cite web|url=http://www.sagevfoods.com/MainPages/Rice101/Types.htm|title=SAGE V FOODS, LLC. Types of rice|accessdate=8 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130321024034/http://www.sagevfoods.com/MainPages/Rice101/Types.htm|archive-date=21 March 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> Mechanical separators are used to separate the broken grains from the whole grains and sort them by size.<ref>[http://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?SearchText=broken+rice+separator&Country=&CatId=0&IndexArea=product_en&ssk=y www.alibaba.com merchant database] retrieved 2009-09-26</ref>

Broken rice is fragmented, not defective;so there is nothing wrong with it.<ref name=AR2002>{{cite web|url=http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/may02/rice0502.htm|title=USDA ARS Online Magazine Vol. 50, No. 5|website=www.ars.usda.gov|accessdate=8 June 2018}}</ref> It is as nutritious as the equivalent quantity of unbroken rice (i.e. if all the [[rice germ|germ]] and [[rice bran|bran]] remains, it is as nutritious as [[brown rice]]; if none remains, it is only as nutritious as [[white rice]]).

Very small broken rice is called [[brewers' rice]], as [[brewer]]s have traditionally useused it,<ref name=long /><ref name=AR2002 /><ref>Texas Monthly April 1975 - Page 110 Uncle Ben "Of the 70 pounds of milled white rice, only about 55 pounds can be counted upon to ...... The other fifteen pounds of broken rice are shunted aside by a "sifting" machine and sold to the export market or to brewers. In the final step before packaging, Uncle ..."</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=18769|title="Life as a Grain of Rice", USDA Ag. Research Service|accessdate=8 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220090759/http://www.ars.usda.gov/Main/docs.htm?docid=18769|archive-date=20 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> although it is also sold to other users. For example, broken rice can be used forby the pet food industry, and for livestock feeding and aquaculture.<ref>Heuzé V., Thiollet H., Tran G., Edouard N., Lessire M., Lebas F., 2018. Broken rice and polished rice. Feedipedia, a programme by INRA, CIRAD, AFZ and FAO. https://www.feedipedia.org/node/748</ref> Broken rice is also used to make [[starch]] which is used as laundry starch and in foods, cosmetics and textile manufacture.<ref>Martin Brink, G. Belay ''Cereals and Pulses'' 2006 - Page 113 "Oryza sativa – planted about 800–900 AD, to West Africa. The final penetration of Oryza sativa into ... Starch made from broken rice is used as laundry starch and in foods, cosmetics and textile manufacture. Beers, wines and spirits are made ..."</ref>