Patent ID: 6210734
Filing Date: 2001-04-03
Classification: A23L

Abstract:
A method of preparing unpolished rice comprising:dipping a rice grain into water of 25 to 35.degree. C. for 12 to 24 hours to germinate the rice and cold-storing the germinated rice at -1 to -5.degree. C. for 1 to 5 days;cooking the cold-stored rice at 90 to 110.degree. C. for 30 to 35 minutes;drying the cooked rice with hot air to obtain 20 to 23% of moisture content;feeding the dried rice to two knurling rollers having different rotative speeds and rolling the rice to remove a hull of the rice and expand a rice bran of the rice;spray-coating a dispersion to the rolled rice and fermenting the coated rice at 25 to 35.degree. C. for 6 to 12 hours to soften the rice bran and an endosperm of the unpolished rice; andheating the fermented rice with hot air of 200 to 300.degree. C. for 1 to 5 minutes to carbonize the rice bran.