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-Baby Food Substitute: Boiled Navara can be used as infant food; it’s safe and can give the baby energy. It can also be used as a natural ‘weight gainer’ for infants who are under weight.

Adultrants:

Adulteration in rice either adventitiously or deliberately is feasible right from crop harvest to till the grain reaches to the hands of the consumers. The common forms of rice prone to adulteration are brown rice, polished rice, rice flour, rice cake and rice bran oil

In any food product, adulteration may be due to 1) substitution with look-alike material of low cost, 2) substitution with low quality material, 3) dilution of the original product, and, 4) mislabelling of age and origin of the material.

Deceitful trader adulterate basmati rice with cross bread basmati varieties and long grain non-basmati varieties.

Commercial value:

-Rice is such an important and widespread source of food, it has gained other meanings. In Asia ‘rice is life’: it is culturally and spiritually crucial to people’s lives. Freshly harvested, unmilled rice grains are used all over Asia in ceremonies and rituals especially those related to fertility. A freshly harvested panicle of rice is often placed over the inside of the house or rice store doorway as a blessing and as protection for the occupants and contents of the house.

In Malaysia the ‘Bario’ cultivar is the most prized and expensive rice because of its wonderful aroma and taste. It is only grown in the remote Kelabit highlands of Sarawak in Borneo. Local people call it ‘money rice’.

Kotakkal Ayurveda - Mother land of modern ayurveda

dhanya - Oryza sativa Linn., Oryza plena Chowdhury - Poaceae

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Medicinal Plants