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Chemical and Nutritional Properties of Brown Rice

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Brown rice is the dehusked or dehulled whole grain rice possessing bran and germ. The presence of bran and germ makes the brown rice to contain a significant amount of dietary fiber, vitamins, and minerals which are present in negligible quantities in the milled white rice. The present chapter deals with the chemical and nutritional properties of brown rice in addition to discussing the recent investigations and their findings.

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  1. Grain Science & Technology Department, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India

    Sila Bhattacharya

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  1. School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Annamalai Manickavasagan

  2. College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

    Chandini Santhakumar

  3. Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India

    N. Venkatachalapathy

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Bhattacharya, S. (2017). Chemical and Nutritional Properties of Brown Rice. In: Manickavasagan, A., Santhakumar, C., Venkatachalapathy, N. (eds) Brown Rice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59011-0_6

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