Utilization of Rice for Commercial Products

Abstract

Research and development dealing with utilization of rice and value-added rice products have been progressively increasing. Since rice had been used as food crop and pharmaceutical drug. Rice plant could be processed to many kind of products both food and nonfood. This article presented rice-milling process, major processed rice product and byproducts, the nutritional substances of the rice grain such as carbohydrate, protein, oil, mineral, and vitamin. Utilization from various parts of rice plant including the usefulness of pure rice starch was also mentioned.