Further milling of brown rice creates white rice or polished rice.
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Most supermarkets in Japan sell ready-polished rice in 10 kg, 5 kg, and smaller bags.
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Polished rice production was 27.7 million tons, a little above the national consumption of around 26.7 million tons.
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"It is impossible to store polished rice for more than six months, " said Kim Kyong-woong, a government spokesman.
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Associated with blandness are polished rice, soybean, cauliflower, carrot, fungus, grapes, beef, pork, quail egg, eel, abalone, honey, and jasmine.
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Polished rice production was 27 . 7 million tons, a little above the national consumption of around 26 . 7 million tons.
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Polished rice is not usually enriched, because the vitamin s yellow color would make the rice visually unacceptable to the major rice-consumption populations.
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A dramatic example of the effect of food processing on a population's health is the history of epidemics of beri-beri in people subsisting on polished rice.
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Eijkman was unable to continue his research due to ill health, but a study by his friend Adolphe Vorderman confirmed the link between polished rice and the disease.
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Newly polished rice is allowed to " rest " until it has absorbed enough moisture from the air so that it will not crack when immersed in water.