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Converted or parboiled rice Basic white rice used for home cooking in much of the Western world; medium to long grain.
Rice has fed more people over a longer period of time than any other crop. As far back as 2500 B.C.
It is able to grow in the desert conditions of Saudi Arabia, in the wetland deltas of Southeast Asia in the flooded rice plains which we are most familiar with.