Food scientists at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station have developed a new parboiling process that reduces water use up to 75% and improves nutrient content in rice. Annegret Jannasch, a ...

Rice has some arsenic because of the soil it's grown in and water used to flood the crop. Cooking rice like pasta, with lots of water that's drained, can cut down arsenic levels by over 50 percent.

Contamination of rice with arsenic is a major problem in some regions of the world with high rice consumption. Now, researchers reporting in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology have ...

The Senior Representative of Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA), Mr Sasaki Taigo, has said the agency was collaborating with University of Abuja to train 80 students on rice processing ...

In central Benin, the emergence of parboiled rice production is reviving rural communes, preventing their relegation to a bygone era An economic opportunity being seized by many women through the ...

Parboiled rice, also known as converted rice, is rice that has been precooked partially in its inedible husk, similar to how potatoes can be parboiled in their skin. The International Standards ...

Here’s how to lower arsenic levels in rice while achieving perfectly cooked, fluffy grains every time. Rice has some arsenic because of the soil it's grown in and water used to flood the crop. Cooking ...