Broken rice
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Broken rice is fragments of rice grains, broken in the field, during drying, during transport, or during milling. Mechanical separators are used to separate the broken grains from the whole grains and
Left, broken or Mali rice; right, long-grain rice. The former is popular in Senegal, where it is used interchangeably with couscous.
An upma dish of broken rice cooked with onions, chilli and ginger, and served with coconut chutney, from India
Cơm tấm (literally "broken rice") with a lemongrass pork chop, from Vietnam.
A thieboudienne from Mauritania, with tomato broken rice, fish, and vegetables.
Rice
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Rice is a cereal grain and, in its domesticated form, is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Africa and Asia. Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa —or
Rice plant (Oryza sativa) with branched panicles containing many grains on each stem
Rice grains of different varieties at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
Anatomy of rice flowers: spikelet (left), plant with tillers (centre), caryopsis (top right), panicle (right)
Detail of rice plant showing flowers grouped in panicle. Male anthers protrude into the air where they can disperse their pollen.