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Paddy Rice or Rough Rice
Brown Rice
Milled Rice
Broken Rice
Rice Bran and Stabilized Rice Bran
Organic Rice
Parboiled Rice
Instant Rice
IQF Rice
Milled Rice
Milled Rice has had the hulls and bran removed. It is also called white rice or polished rice. Most milled rice sold into the domestic market has been milled very hard and has had the broken content removed to below 4%. Less expensive rice sold to export markets may be milled to a lessor degree and may have higher percentages of broken kernels. State laws require that milled rice sold to U.S. consumers be enriched with vitamins to make its nutritional value similar to brown rice. For this reason, cooking directions mention that the rice should not be washed. (The enrichment is usually a powder and is easily removed with water.) Most ethnic consumers who eat a lot of rice wash the rice to improve taste and texture. Much of the Japonica rice packaged in California is not enriched and is labeled as coated with glucose (allowed by law) for these consumers who do not like the taste of enrichment and who were going to wash it away anyway.
Almost all rice is consumed in the milled form, and most rice exported from the U.S. is exported in the milled form.
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