At present, the trend of reducing sugar and going sugar-free is surging, and consumer demand has spawned a new and popular market for low-GI (glycemic index) foods. In overseas countries such as Australia and New Zealand, food and beverages with low GI labels are very common.
Parboiled rice refers to natural endogenous nutritious and healthy rice that is made by soaking rice in water and then heating it to gelatinize the starch, dry it, and then hull it and grind it.
The consumption of parboiled rice in China originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, and records of processing technology appeared in the Song Dynasty: According to the “History of Chinese Agricultural Science and Technology”, in 1101 AD, Sichuan adopted the rice processing method of “steaming first and then frying”, which was the embryo of China’s parboiled rice processing technology.
After development, parboiled rice has been very popular in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, and has the reputation of healthy rice, low-sugar staple food, and “the noble of rice”. In the 1990s, parboiled rice, as a processed rice different from brown rice and polished rice, was included in the rice standard of the International Food Codex.
Compared with polished white rice, parboiled rice uses a subversive processing technology. Before the rice is husked, it is treated with a series of hydrothermal processes such as soaking, germination, and steaming, so that the rice can be processed through nutrient reverse osmosis, germ germination, starch reorganization, etc., so that more whole grain nutrition can be retained in the rice grains, and the glycemic index can be reduced, making the product healthier; then the hulling, grinding, polishing, color sorting, etc. are carried out to improve the color and taste of the product.
Parboiled rice processing equipment, also known as parboiled rice production line, parboiled rice machinery, parboiled rice equipment, generally consists of: pure water soaking equipment, high temperature and high pressure steam equipment, drying equipment, cooling equipment, rolling equipment, spectral color sorting equipment, etc.
As a representative enterprise in my country’s parboiled rice industry, FOTMA is one of the standard setters of the parboiled rice industry and has obtained more than 80 patents. It has opened up the entire industry chain layout of parboiled rice from raw grains to processing, from fields to tables, from research and development to markets. It has also led the international parboiled rice HPT3.0 process. The parboiled rice series products it produces not only have the nutrition of brown rice and the taste of polished rice, but also maintain healthy characteristics and functional attributes.
Post time: Apr-23-2025