Rice and Rice Benefits - This one plant who does not know because rice / rice is a staple food for the people of Indonesia, but not for the people of Papua and its surroundings, because their staple food is sago. the use of rice is not only for food alone, but also the usual rice processed into rice flour commonly used to make cakes and so forth. Rice is generally grown as an annual crop. Rice plants can grow as high as 1 - 1.8 m. the leaves are long and slender with length 50 - 100 cm and width 2 - 2,5 cm. Eaten rice is 5 - 12 mm long and 2 - 3 mm thick. single leaf-shaped ribbon that is 15-30 cm long, width reaches 2 ern, rough touch, pointed tip, flat edge, split, parallel, green. Flower rnajemuk shaped panicle. The fruit is stone, unraveled on the stalk, green, after the old becomes yellow. hard seed, oval, white or red. The grains of rice that have been loosened from the stalks are called grain, and the outer shell is called rice
~ Scientific content of Rice
•Energy
•Carbohydrate
•Sugar
•Food fiber
•Fat
•Protein
•Water
•Thiamine (Vit. B1)
•Riboflavin (Vitamin B2)
•Niacin (Vit. B3)
•Pantothenic acid (B5)
•Vitamin B6
•Folate (Vit. B9)
•Calcium
•Iron
•Magnesium
•Manganese
•Phosphorus
•Potassium
•Zinc