What is the secret of the "rice" of self-heating rice?

Self-heating rice that does not use fire, electricity, and dishes that can be eaten for ten minutes with a heat pack that can be left for ten minutes has long been a must-have hoard of grain
in many people's homes.

The taste is different

In advertisements about self-heating rice, many merchants will use the rice in self-heating rice as a publicity stunt, such as "Preferred Five Permanent Rice" and "Long-grain Fragrant Rice", etc.

In a life supermarket in Yuhuatai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, a variety of self-heating foods occupy a lot of shelf space
.

Self-heating rice is different from real rice

Tao Yajun, an associate researcher at the Institute of Food Crops of Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that at present, the rice that can be quickly steamed on the market is roughly divided into two types
: dehydrated and non-dehydrated.

Natural rice has more starch content, and when the rice is cooked and then cooled, it will feel that the rice has hardened, which is the performance of
the starch crystal structure after being rearranged, and the starch "comes back to life".

Nutrition is not necessarily inferior to traditional rice

With the acceleration of the pace of life, takeaways, prefabricated dishes and other kinds of consumption that can make people "liberated" from cooking are constantly accepted by the public, but while accepting them, food safety is also one of the focuses of
consumer concern.

(Xu Qianqian)

China Food News (2022/09/22/06)

(Editor-in-charge: Zhu Meiqiao)