A variety of rice

Hello everyone.

 

Today, I will talk about type of rice.

There are main 3 types. The first type, Japonica is most famous kinds for Japanese. It is soft, tough and roundness. Ten thousand years ago, it spread to Japan from China.

The second type, Indica [Indian rice] is long and an oval shapes. It has grown a lot in China and India. Indica is the type which can be harvested in the world. We can harvest a lot of crops than Japonica. It is often eaten with cully.

The third type is Jabanika [Spanish rice]. The shape is look like Japonica, and big drops of crops. It is grown in Europe, so it used Europe dish.

 

 

 

 

There are about twenty thousand kinds of rice all over the world.

In addition, Japonica is divided into small kind in Japan. Non-glutinous rice is the most of common kind. We call Uruchi rice. In Japan, many types of Non-glutinous rice are grown.  Akita-komachi can be given as famous types.

The rice cakes made from glutinous rice and Non-glutinous rice. This shuld not be hard when it cool, so it is delicious. We call mochi rice to it, because we need it when we make rice cake.  Mochi means rice cakes.

Kaori rice is special for Japanese. This is useful for festivals and other special ceremonies. Smells like popcorn when it is warm.

Sake rice is used to make sake. Sake is Japanese alcohol drink. This is a large drop compared to the Japonica of the ordinary.

Red rice is a very old type, and it was handed down from ancient China. Black rice and Green rice are similar to it. They are very colorful. Red rice contains a lot of nutrients, but it does not contain much moisture.

We can harvest about six hundred and ninety million tons of rice in the world every year. And China is country that are harvested rice is the vest in the world. Japan is the 11^th. Amount that is harvested in China and India account for half of the world`s harvest.

However, Bangladesh is a lot of consumption per capita. People living in Bangladesh eat about 5kg of rice per day. By the way, Japanese people eat about 1.6kg of rice a day. Japanese prefer to eat Non-glutinous rice.

How to store rice is very important because Japanese eat rice every day. Next time, I will introduced about worm and insects bleed rice.

See you again!

 

 

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