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Definition of Brown rice
1. Noun. Unpolished rice retaining the yellowish-brown outer layer.
Definition of Brown rice
1. Noun. Rice with the brownish hull not polished off as in white rice. The hull contains important vitamins, including vitamin B complex, which are missing in white rice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brown Rice
Literary usage of Brown rice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Eating: How to Insure Stamina, Endurance, Vigor, Strength and by Alfred Watterson McCann (1919)
"... compounds and other organic minerals present in the pericarp of natural brown
rice he robs the human family of its requisite supply of these elements. ..."
2. Elementary Home Economics: First Lessons in Sewing and Textiles, Foods and by Mary Lockwood Matthews (1921)
"The brown rice has a good flavor but does not sell so well as the polished rice
because of its appearance. It is cheaper than the polished rice. ..."
3. The New Dietetics, what to Eat and how: A Guide to Scientific Feeding in by John Harvey Kellogg (1921)
"Both polished and brown rice are in use throughout the densely populated ...
Wheat contains four times as much lime as brown rice, rye five times as much, ..."
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