Rice

📖 In short

Rice is one of the most important foods in the world: more than half the people on Earth eat it almost every day, especially in Asia. It's a grain like wheat and corn. Arabs cook it in tasty dishes like kabsa, maqluba and biryani.

🤩 Did you know?

Ripe rice grains form 4 to 6 weeks after the flowers are pollinated.
Europeans learned about rice after Alexander the Great's journey to India.
China and India are the world's biggest rice producers.
More than 70 thousand kinds of rice are known.

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🌟 It loves water

Rice is usually grown in flooded fields called paddies. The water protects the rice from weeds and helps it grow.

🔍 Green terraces

In mountain countries like the Philippines and Indonesia, farmers build terraces like stairs on the mountainsides and fill them with water to grow rice.

💡 White and brown

A grain of rice has a husk. If only the outer husk is removed, it's brown rice, which is very healthy; if it's polished more, it becomes white. There's long, short, sticky and fragrant rice.