Abstract

DETERMINATION OF NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION OF DIFFERENT RICE BRAN

*N. Sangeetha

ABSTRACT

Rice is a dietary staple food and one important cereal crop, especially for people in Asia. Some of the rice components namely rice bran and rice bran oil contain some minor components which are reported to have some biological effects. The present work aims to assess chemical and nutritional composition of different milling samples. The production of nutrition rich rice bran by rice milling samples (MRM modern rice mill bran and huller mill bran) is sieved. The results reveal that the bran from modern rice has highly pure and highly nutritional content than the huller bran. This difference is due to the poor milling of rice in huller mills. Because of the high nutritional content, the modern bran has greater significance and highly suitable for production of valuable products from rice bran.

Keywords: Rice bran, health benefits, physical-chemical, Nutritional composition.