Instant rice is precooked and requires only 1-7 minutes to prepare, significantly less time than regular rice, which takes 18-30 minutes. Its production involves blanching, steaming, and dehydrating, though it has lower nutritional content and flavor due to processing. While convenient, instant rice is more expensive and often contains more broken grains compared to regular rice.

1. PRE-COOKED RICE
BY-SUVAJIT MAJUMDAR

2. INTRODUCTION
• Instant rice is rice that has been precooked. Some types are microwave
ready. Some types are dehydrated so that they cook more rapidly. Regular
rice requires 18-30 minutes to cook while instant rice needs 1-7 minutes.
Because it has already been cooked, all that is necessary to prepare instant
rice is to simply microwave it or re-hydrate it with hot water.

3. PREPARATION PROCESS
• Instant rice is made using several methods.The most common method is
similar to the home cooking process.The rice is blanched in hot
water, steamed, and rinsed.
• It is then placed in large ovens for dehydration until the moisture content
reaches approximately twelve percent or less.
• The basic principle involves increasing moisture of the milled white rice by
using steam or water to form cracks or holes in the kernels.The fast
cooking properties come from the fact that, when recooked, water can
penetrate into the cracked grain much more quickly.

4. ADVANTAGES
• The major advantage of instant rice is the rapid cooking time - some brands
can be ready in as little as three minutes.
• Currently, several companies, Asian as well as American, have developed
brands which only require 90 seconds to cook, much like a cup of instant
noodles.

5. DISADVANTAGES
• Instant rice is more expensive than regular rice.
• The "cracking" process can lead to a significant increase in broken grains in a
package.
• Rice naturally has minerals like phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium.
Instant rice has fewer of the calories, carbohydrates, and protein than regular
rice.
• Companies make up for the loss of nutrients by adding their own nutrients
such as the B-vitamins, as well as iron.
• Due to its processing, it also loses some of the flavor.
• The quicker cooking method can result in the rice being less firm in texture
than regular rice.

6. Major brands
• Minute Rice
• Kraft
• Rice-A-Roni
• Uncle Ben's

7. CONCLUTION
• Pre-cooked rice is good alternative of rice in conditions/situations where
we can’t practically cook the rice for long time.Ex- During travelling etc.
• But it has remarkable low nutrient quantity due to the harsh processing.

8. REFRENCES
• Wikipedia

9. Thank you