RICE, one of the most essential cereal food for human nutrition

RICE, one of the most essential cereal food for human nutrition - Rice is a monocot plant seed of Oryza sativa or O. glaberrima. This cereal grain, is the most important staple food much of the world's population, especially in the East and South Asia, Middle East, Latin America and the West Indies. It 'a grain with the second highest of world production, while corn (maize).

Since much of the corn crop is cultivated for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important cereal for human nutrition and caloric intake, with more than one fifth of the calories consumed in the whole world by humans.

About Starch

Starch or amylum is a carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined together by glycosidic bonds. This polysaccharideis produced by all green plants as an energy store. It is the most important carbohydrate in the human diet and is contained in such staple foods as potatoes, wheat, maize (corn), rice, and cassava.