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Rice Bran is the newest and most nutritious food source to be made available for human consumption in modern history. Rice Bran has the potential to do so many good things for so many people. It is well known that rice bran is very nutritious and will be integrated into many foods is great in and of itself, but because this food source is so readily available, it can be used to feed the starving all over the world thanks to a group of hard working, pioneering scientists. Rice and Shine is an example of a new product made with Rice Bran.
Rice bran is the part of the rice kernel that is removed from the rice in the milling process of making white rice. While its high quality nutritional value is well known, it was deemed unusable by the food and drug administration. This was because the rice bran breaks down or goes bad very quickly. Consequently, 16 millions tons of Rice Bran was either turned into the soil, burned or discarded. It was the earths most unused food source. Until now.
Rice bran comes packed with 120 anti oxidants, vitamin b and an incredibly
complex form of vitamin E. Rice bran is a whole food. The biological machinery
that does the work of processing nutrition for the human body is already contained
naturally in the rice bran. Normally the human body will react to the intake
of a vitamin and process what it needs to process the vitamin, but only 33%
of the vitamin is ever absorbed into the body. With Rice and Shine, made with
rice bran. The process of absorbing nutrition into the body at a faster rate
and with more nutrition actually being deliver to the bodies systems is achieved,
making it a much better delivery method for the absorption of nutrients.
Patty McPeak started her work on rice bran in 1982. She and her team set out
and invented the process and equipment that is able to deactivate the enzyme
responsible for making the rice bran go bad. This process takes place right
after the rice bran is stripped from the brown rice kernel in the milling process
of turning brown rice to white rice. As a result, rice bran now has a shelf
life of 2 to 3 years. This makes it possible to add rice bran into almost anything
we eat.
Patty McPeak's first product using the rice bran she made available is called
Rice n Shine. A flavorful, heart
happy meal replacement shake. It comes in 2 flavors. Chocolate and Vanilla.
It is a meal replacement drink that is selling now. There are many products
that will be coming out in the near future from lots of companies wanting to
take advantage of this great new food source. These are just the first implementations
for the use of rice bran, but to be sure, the future for this food source and
what it can do for man kind is very promising.
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