Indica rice is a special kind of rice, which is slender, beige and white, and its transparency is worse than other kinds. When cooking indica rice, it is more suitable for making rice noodles, radish cakes or fried rice because of its strong water absorption and large expansion and relatively high rice yield. Indica rice is more than 7 mm long, not too sticky, fragile and easy to break during processing.

Characteristics of indica rice

After cooking, the rice yield is high, the viscosity is low, the rice is crisp and easy to break during processing. The cross section is oblate, and the colors are white and transparent, as well as translucent and opaque. According to the harvest season of rice, it is divided into early indica rice and late indica rice.

Early indica rice grains are wide and short, pink-white, big in belly, rich in powder, crisp in texture, less viscous than late indica rice, and poor in quality. Late indica rice grains are slender and slightly flat, with fine texture, generally transparent or translucent, smaller belly white, more hard grains, greater oiliness and better quality.