Innovations in Rice Processing
and Value Addition
Dr. R.T. Patil
Former Director, CIPHET, Ludhiana
Chairman, Benevole Welfare Society for
Post Harvest Technology, Bhopal
Health Benefits of Brown Rice
• Contains magnesium which can help to protect
against and reduce the symptoms of asthma,
migraine headaches, heart attack, stroke and high
blood pressure
• The fibre content of brown rice can help to protect
against and reduce the symptoms of
atherosclerosis, colon cancer, constipation,
diarrhoea and gallstones
• Brown rice is healthier than white rice
Health Benefits of Rice
• Good for bowel health,
• Important source of vitamin B1
• Good energy food
• Balances blood sugar levels
• Antioxidant
• Anti-cancer
• Lowers cholesterol
• Lowers high blood pressure
• Relieves constipation
Nutrients in Rice
Potassium
Calcium
Iron
Magnesium
Phosphorus
Zinc
Manganese
Vitamin B3
Vitamin B5
Vitamin B6
Folic acid
Recent Trends in Processing
• Soft drying
• Curing of rice
• Bio polishing
• Rice in bakery-rice biscuits
• Rice crispies
• Microwavable and pressure
cooker puffed rice
• Vitamin rice
Soft Drying for High Moisture
Paddy
This system of drying can accept the lots
with varied moisture content as moisture
gets balanced due to hygroscopicity of
husk
Advantages of Soft Drying
• Low running cost
• No heated air required
• It is only aeration with high capacity blowers
• Storage tanks with mixing arrangements can be used for
drying
• Higher head yield
• No heat stress to grain as in sun drying or mechanical
drying
• No cracking of grain due to drying
• Energy saving
• No heavy mixing of paddy during drying
• Drying of moistened paddy is relatively simple as no
quality concern
Naturally dried rice hence retains original taste
Curing of High Moisture Paddy
• Yields partially parboiled rice
• Better in Nutrition compared to raw
rice
• Better in color compared parboiled
rice
• Better in texture compared to
parboiled rice
• Grade between white and parboiled
rice
Bio Polishing-Enzymatic Polishing of
Brown Rice
• Mechanical milling results in lower head rice
yield with loss of major nutrients.
• An alternative polishing method known as bio-
polish has been developed for rice with some
selected multi-enzymes
• Bio-polishing has been carried out on
germinated brown rice to get softer, nutritious
brown rice with the added benefits of germinated
rice.
• The bio-polished rice has been found to be
superior in every aspect when compared to
milled rice.
IIT Kharagpur Technology
Salient Features of Bio Polishing
• No loss in head rice yield
• Nutrient rich than milled rice
• Fibre content more than milled rice
• With benefits of germinated brown rice
• Softer with less cooking time than brown rice
• Better shelf-life as compared to the non-treated
rice
• Higher antioxidant potential, free amino acids,
crude fibre and phenolics as compared to the non-
treated rice
• Positive effect on water uptake ratio and volume
expansion ratio.
• Less cooking time
• Easy for digestion
Rice Biscuits-Crackers
• Steam-kneading a mixture of rice powder and
water to form a rice dough
• Forming a piece from the rice dough by
knead-extruding
• First drying stage to intermediate moisture
• Second drying step to baking moisture
content
• Baking the piece in to 3 stages to produce
the soft-baked rice cracker having a specific
volume of 5.0 to 6.5 cm3/g
• Coating a surface of the rice cracker
United States Patent 6890573, 2005
Rice Biscuits-Crackers
Half Products for Microwave
Expanded/Puffed Products
• Half products especially adapted to be puffed by
consumers at-home by microwave heating to form
puffed food products.
• The finished products comprise both R-T-E
cereals and snack products.
• The half products are fabricated from cooked
farinaceous doughs comprising rice flour, wheat
starch, oil and salt, which have been gelatinized
by subjecting the mixture to high shear mixing
during heating.
• The half products are further applied with exterior
or topical sugar coating.
United States Patent 5102679, 1990
Rice Crispies
Vitamin-enriching rice extrusion
process
• Extrusion mechanism has been developed
that transforms rice brokens into vitamin-
enriched rice pellets.
• Rice pellets can be customised in terms of
colour, shape, and size, composition and
their cooking characteristics can also be
tailor-made such as instant rice pellets, as
quick-cooking rice pellets, or as a product
for admixture to natural rice.
• Conserves most of the sensitive vitamins
during storage, washing and even cooking
Production of Rice Analog
Rice flour with
either 12 %
(w/w) gluten or
25 % (w/w)
blackgram flour
gave minimum
leaching with
optimum
cooking times
of about 10
min.
Recommendations/Suggstions
• To address the problem of high moisture paddy
curing technology be properly investigated and
standardized
• Soft drying using the existing facilities at rice mills
should be standardized
• Modern techniques be indigenously developed to
produce rice crispies and baked products due to
their health benefits
• Extruded designer foods be developed from rice
brokens as value added health foods
• The rice millers and their associations should
actively support the research for innovative
process and product development based on rice.
Quick Cooking Rice
• Quick cooking
rice is made by
steeping polished
rice in water to a
moisture content
of 35 per cent,
cooking under
pressure and
drying.
Amylose type and other properties preferred for
processed rice products
Product Amylose type Other properties
Waxy Low Interme
diate
High
Rice cereals and
snacks
+ + + Low fat; texture affected by amylose
content
Extrusion-cooked rice
foods
+ + + Low fat
Rice-based infant
formulations
+ + Low fat
Rice puddings and
breads
+ + + Low GT
Rice cakes + + + Low GT, aged (for fermented cakes),
freshly milled
Flat rice noodles and
rice paper
(+) Å
Rice wines Å Å + + Low protein and fat, higher ethanol
yield for waxy and low amylose
Beer adjunct + Low GT and low fat
Fermnented rice foods
(idli, dosai)
+ Parboiled
Rice frozen sauces,
desserts,sweets
+ + Slow retrogradation (syneresis)
a Preferred amylose type based on type of raw rice preferred.
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Innovations in rice processing and value addition

  • 1.
    Innovations in RiceProcessing and Value Addition Dr. R.T. Patil Former Director, CIPHET, Ludhiana Chairman, Benevole Welfare Society for Post Harvest Technology, Bhopal
  • 2.
    Health Benefits ofBrown Rice • Contains magnesium which can help to protect against and reduce the symptoms of asthma, migraine headaches, heart attack, stroke and high blood pressure • The fibre content of brown rice can help to protect against and reduce the symptoms of atherosclerosis, colon cancer, constipation, diarrhoea and gallstones • Brown rice is healthier than white rice
  • 3.
    Health Benefits ofRice • Good for bowel health, • Important source of vitamin B1 • Good energy food • Balances blood sugar levels • Antioxidant • Anti-cancer • Lowers cholesterol • Lowers high blood pressure • Relieves constipation
  • 4.
  • 5.
    Recent Trends inProcessing • Soft drying • Curing of rice • Bio polishing • Rice in bakery-rice biscuits • Rice crispies • Microwavable and pressure cooker puffed rice • Vitamin rice
  • 6.
    Soft Drying forHigh Moisture Paddy
  • 7.
    This system ofdrying can accept the lots with varied moisture content as moisture gets balanced due to hygroscopicity of husk
  • 8.
    Advantages of SoftDrying • Low running cost • No heated air required • It is only aeration with high capacity blowers • Storage tanks with mixing arrangements can be used for drying • Higher head yield • No heat stress to grain as in sun drying or mechanical drying • No cracking of grain due to drying • Energy saving • No heavy mixing of paddy during drying • Drying of moistened paddy is relatively simple as no quality concern Naturally dried rice hence retains original taste
  • 10.
    Curing of HighMoisture Paddy • Yields partially parboiled rice • Better in Nutrition compared to raw rice • Better in color compared parboiled rice • Better in texture compared to parboiled rice • Grade between white and parboiled rice
  • 11.
    Bio Polishing-Enzymatic Polishingof Brown Rice • Mechanical milling results in lower head rice yield with loss of major nutrients. • An alternative polishing method known as bio- polish has been developed for rice with some selected multi-enzymes • Bio-polishing has been carried out on germinated brown rice to get softer, nutritious brown rice with the added benefits of germinated rice. • The bio-polished rice has been found to be superior in every aspect when compared to milled rice. IIT Kharagpur Technology
  • 12.
    Salient Features ofBio Polishing • No loss in head rice yield • Nutrient rich than milled rice • Fibre content more than milled rice • With benefits of germinated brown rice • Softer with less cooking time than brown rice • Better shelf-life as compared to the non-treated rice • Higher antioxidant potential, free amino acids, crude fibre and phenolics as compared to the non- treated rice • Positive effect on water uptake ratio and volume expansion ratio. • Less cooking time • Easy for digestion
  • 13.
    Rice Biscuits-Crackers • Steam-kneadinga mixture of rice powder and water to form a rice dough • Forming a piece from the rice dough by knead-extruding • First drying stage to intermediate moisture • Second drying step to baking moisture content • Baking the piece in to 3 stages to produce the soft-baked rice cracker having a specific volume of 5.0 to 6.5 cm3/g • Coating a surface of the rice cracker United States Patent 6890573, 2005
  • 14.
  • 15.
    Half Products forMicrowave Expanded/Puffed Products • Half products especially adapted to be puffed by consumers at-home by microwave heating to form puffed food products. • The finished products comprise both R-T-E cereals and snack products. • The half products are fabricated from cooked farinaceous doughs comprising rice flour, wheat starch, oil and salt, which have been gelatinized by subjecting the mixture to high shear mixing during heating. • The half products are further applied with exterior or topical sugar coating. United States Patent 5102679, 1990
  • 16.
  • 17.
    Vitamin-enriching rice extrusion process •Extrusion mechanism has been developed that transforms rice brokens into vitamin- enriched rice pellets. • Rice pellets can be customised in terms of colour, shape, and size, composition and their cooking characteristics can also be tailor-made such as instant rice pellets, as quick-cooking rice pellets, or as a product for admixture to natural rice. • Conserves most of the sensitive vitamins during storage, washing and even cooking
  • 18.
    Production of RiceAnalog Rice flour with either 12 % (w/w) gluten or 25 % (w/w) blackgram flour gave minimum leaching with optimum cooking times of about 10 min.
  • 20.
    Recommendations/Suggstions • To addressthe problem of high moisture paddy curing technology be properly investigated and standardized • Soft drying using the existing facilities at rice mills should be standardized • Modern techniques be indigenously developed to produce rice crispies and baked products due to their health benefits • Extruded designer foods be developed from rice brokens as value added health foods • The rice millers and their associations should actively support the research for innovative process and product development based on rice.
  • 21.
    Quick Cooking Rice •Quick cooking rice is made by steeping polished rice in water to a moisture content of 35 per cent, cooking under pressure and drying.
  • 22.
    Amylose type andother properties preferred for processed rice products Product Amylose type Other properties Waxy Low Interme diate High Rice cereals and snacks + + + Low fat; texture affected by amylose content Extrusion-cooked rice foods + + + Low fat Rice-based infant formulations + + Low fat Rice puddings and breads + + + Low GT Rice cakes + + + Low GT, aged (for fermented cakes), freshly milled Flat rice noodles and rice paper (+) Å Rice wines Å Å + + Low protein and fat, higher ethanol yield for waxy and low amylose Beer adjunct + Low GT and low fat Fermnented rice foods (idli, dosai) + Parboiled Rice frozen sauces, desserts,sweets + + Slow retrogradation (syneresis) a Preferred amylose type based on type of raw rice preferred.
  • 23.