Product Description

The rice is most commonly cultivated herbaceous vegetable after the maize and wheat of wheat family species.  It is crucial in the nutrition of the more than half of the world population.
 
It is one of the oldest food of the earth.  The archeological findings reveal that it was consumed in Chine for about 8,**0 years.  The rice is in particular the most common foodstuff used in innumerable types of recipe.  There are 7,**0 varieties of the rice.  In general, it is cultivated in tropical and sub-tropical climates distinguished with plenty of rainfall.  Its variety featuring thin and long grains are preferred for persian pilaf.  The rice of  shorter and plumb grains is suitable for pilaf.  Those with short and broken grains are used in desserts like rice pudding.  When dried, it soaks more then when it is fresh.