Yukwa, a traditional Korean puffed snack made from waxy rice, has long been a popular snack item because of its unique texture and sweet flavor, which results from a coating made with honey or starch syrup (5). Some yukwa products are also coated with puffed or roasted cereal grits for added nutrition and attractiveness. Koreans have traditionally prepared yukwa for festive occasions such as bi...

A total of 225 day-old broiler chicks (43.08 g initial body weight) were allotted to three dietary treatments for a 6week feeding trial. The treatments were 1) Control (defatted rice bran; DFRB), 2) fresh rice bran (FRB) and 3) rancid rice bran (RRB). Rice brans were intentionally spoiled by two degrees of rancidity by the values of free fatty acids (FFA): 7.6% (FRB) and 16.3% (RRB). Diets were...

Oceanobacillus picturae strain Heshi-B3 was isolated from rice bran in a traditional fermented seafood dish named Heshiko, which was produced in Fukui Prefecture in Japan. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of O. picturae strain Heshi B-3.

Two long-grain rice cultivars/hybrids (‘Wells’ and ‘CL 161’) harvested from locations in Arkansas were used in this study. Rice samples were milled for 20, 30, 40, and 50 seconds. Milled whole-rice samples were cooked in excess water for 16, 18, 20, and 22 minutes and in a 2:1 water-to-rice ratio for 20 minutes (WR20). Cooked rice texture and solid leach were determined. Results indicated that ...

The component of protein in rice, at 7-9% by weight, is relatively low, but the total amount of rice protein potentially available is significant because the production of rice worldwide, at 380 million tons annually, is huge. Rice proteins are recognized as nutritional, hypoallergenic, and healthy for human consumption, and rice protein products have been in demand in recent years. However, be...

We consider samples of n geometric random variables (Γ1, Γ2,. .. Γn) where P{Γj = i} = pq i−1 , for 1 ≤ j ≤ n, with p + q = 1. The parameter we study is the position of the first occurrence of the maximum value in a such a sample. We derive a probability generating function for this position with which we compute the first two (factorial) moments. The asymptotic technique known as Rice's method...

Cereal Chem. 79(2):252–256 Waxy rice starches from three japonica cultivars (Taichung Waxy 1 [TCW1], Taichung Waxy 70 [TCW70], Tachimemochi) and one indica cultivar (Tainung Sen Waxy 2 [TNSW2]) were characterized for chemical and physicochemical properties. The amylopectin structures were different for the four waxy rice starches in terms of degree of polymerization (DP), average chain length (...

Nearly-quaternionic KK ahler manifolds of dimension at least 8 are shown to be quaternionic KK ahler. Restrictions on the covariant derivative of the fundamental four-form of a semi-quaternionic KK ahler are also found.