Broken rice is fragments of rice grains, broken in the field, during drying, during transport, or during milling.[1] Mechanical separators are used to separate the broken grains from the whole grains and sort them by size.[2]
Broken rice is fragmented, not defective, so there is nothing wrong with it.[3] It is as nutritious as the equivalent quantity of unbroken rice (i.e. if all the germ and bran remains, it is as nutritious as brown rice; if none remains, it is as nutritious as white rice).
Broken rice has a long history; Ibn Baṭṭūṭa mentions rice couscous in the area of Mali in 1350,[4] presumably made of African rice.
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- ^ El-Namaky, R. A.; Demont, M. (2013), "Hybrid rice in Africa: challenges and prospects.", Realizing Africa's rice promise, CABI, pp. 173–178, doi:10.1079/9781845938123.0173, ISBN 978-1-84593-812-3