About microwavable rice pouches. Is it fully cooked when microwaved?

Question

I usually don't eat a whole pouch so I put the rest in the fridge.Sometimes I eat the rice cold and it has a chewy hard texture to it. Has the rice become somehow raw again or is it hard from being in the fridge. I am worried that I may be eating parboiled rice which has more calories than cooked. I do not want to be eating more than I intended.

Answer 1

It's hard because it's cold.  Put a  teaspoon of water in the pouch with the cold rice, then following directions, microwave it again.  It should come out moist & fluffy, and, it has cooked a little more!

Answer 2

It just firms up from being in the fridge.  Most of those rice bags are already cooked...you just nuke them for a minute or 2 to heat them up.

You should be good to go

Answer 3

I think if fully cooked before they package it, so I think its because its cold like the first answer said.

Answer 4

it's become hard from being in the fridgee.  it is fully cooked when its microwaved. so yeh.