Mythic images of wounded elites come to mind : gout-ridden royalty, wan and hysterical Victorian ladies, ascetic malnourished Brahman widows, Mandarins eating vitamin-deficient polished rice and bearing beriberi.
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The polished rice means two things : it has lost the vital vitamin E and it has a very high content of starch which can result in constipation.
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Harper explains how sake is graded ( when it is made from highly polished rice, it is finer and has a higher grade ) and how it is brewed.
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Among this work are a study of the anthropometry of Smith College coeds from 1929 and a study of the detrimental effects of feeding a pigeon polished rice versus brown rice.
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The length of time depends on the degree to which the rice was polished, ranging from several hours or even overnight for an ordinary milling to just minutes for highly polished rice.
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In return for the North Korean agreement on the rail and road projects, South Korea will give North Korea 400, 000 tons of polished rice and 100, 000 tons of fertilizer, the statement said.
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The rice retained up to 65 percent of the thiamine ( Vitamin B 1 ) of raw brown rice and 80 percent of pantothenic acid and more than double the vitamin content of ordinary polished rice.
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Mills range from simple hullers, with a throughput of a couple of tonnes a day, that simply remove the outer husk, to enormous operations that can process 4, 000 tonnes a day and produce highly polished rice.
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On potato dextrose agar, " M . canis " produces a lemon-yellow pigment that is easily visualized, due to the presence of aerial hyphae, while on the polished rice, most isolates ( even atypical strains ) produce yellow pigment.
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Either by hand or in a rice polisher, white rice may be buffed with glucose or talc powder ( often called polished rice, though this term may also refer to white rice in general ), parboiled, or processed into flour.
