Where does brown rice come from?

Question

Like the source of brown rice. Thankyou

Answer 1

Most of the rice that is sold as white rice and brown rice come from the same plant.

After the rice paddy is dried, the husk is removed. After the husk is removed the grain is brown. This is brown rice. Brown part is actually bran. After bran is removed, the rice is dirty white. The dirty white grain is polished to make it white rice.

Therefore, the white rice has less fiber and B vitamins than the brown rice, because brown rice still has a bran layer on the grain.

For other color rice, the same is true. After the bran is removed, the polishe grain is red.

Answer 2

All rice is "brown" before it's "polished." Polishing is the process of removing the brownish husk from each grain.

Answer 3

it's a less processed form of rice with the husk still attached. rice is rice.

Answer 4

Brown rice come from rice plants which are mainly cultivated in South Asia and parts of Africa where they originated.

Here's the source:

Answer 5

Brown rice is simply rice in its natural form.  It's white rice that's unnatural, because all the good stuff has been removed.

Answer 6

Brown rice still has the outer shell that is normally removed when processing. Brown rice is more nutritional than white rice.

Answer 7

Do you mean where is it grown - many places in the world including Asia and in the United States (such as California).  The first link below shows some beautiful pictures of rice paddies. The next two links are for a California-based company whose brown rice I've been buying for years.

If you mean, where does it come from compared to white rice: brown rice is a whole grain that has not been refined. It has all the bran and outer husk intact, so it has more fiber and more nutrients such as vitamins. The fourth link has an interesting statement: All rice is inherently “Brown Rice” -- or, it starts out that way and then the bran is removed and then it becomes white rice.