Plastic rice

In Market. we came ko known that .when we cook a rice and make it round . its bounce like a ball. what is the main reason to bounce that rice ball. does its a really plastic rice or its just a myth .

It’s a fabricated rice ,made by mixing rice flour ,grits ,little salt, distilled monoglycerides ,some enrichment or fortification blend , then passing it through a twin screw extruder that comes put from a die that simulates rice grain in appearance.
Certainly during extrusion ,porous structure is created is better than the normally compact normal rice which makes it buoyant or bouncy.

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The reason that makes it round probably the starch quality. Rice is known carbohydrate, starch is the dominant one. So, starch quality like the proportion of amylose to amylopectin is a determinant factor for its cohesiveness and adhesive properties.

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nope for plastic rice to make n imitate is an expensive process
breaking myth:starchy products when heated get gelatinised as we all know the bouncy nature of gelatinisation its just the starch content and combination of amylose and amylopectin

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Totally agreed with you.

Prashant Bhisma, I would recommend you to visit FSSAI once. It has break this myth years ago.

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MODIFIED RICE or FRK rice Kernels (either with fortification or colour / or with addition of Basmati Oleo resin) in India, is produced using Made in India machinery, I know their contact email [email protected]