It also takes a few minutes longer to cook. Precooked rice has been milled, cooked, and dehydrated before packaging. Precooked rice, in its dried form, is more porous so that boiling water can penetrate the grains and rehydrate them in a short time. Red rice, Oryza sativa an annual grass, adapted to an aquatic habitat, that reproduces by seed. The second leaf has a sheath, blade, ligule, and auricles.
Leaves have short, stiff hairs on their upper and lower surfaces.
The mature plant has round, hollow, jointed culms, and rather flat, sessile leaf blades. The leaves have short, stiff hairs on their upper and lower leaf surfaces. The plants tiller profusely, becoming brushier than white rice plants. Panicles are loose and open and droop slightly. The grain shatters easily when ripe.