For a 100g serving of cooked rice, the energy value reaches around 115 kcal. As for 100g of raw rice, well we reach nearly 350 kcal! Rice, once cooked, is therefore 3 times less caloric.

A very consumed food
More than half of the world's population consumes rice. It is estimated that there are 130,000 varieties. There are two sub-varieties of rice: the long and narrow grain forms called Indica, and the one widely consumed by Asians, Japonica, with its oval and round grains.