Vietnam Agricultural Products

  THE NUTRIENTS CONTAINED IN RICE Long grain white rice is a popular food consumed in most of the world. Long grain white rice as well as other Vietnamese rice has a lot of minerals and nutrient content Nutritional composition of white rice: The nutritional content of rice is calculated according to 1 cup of white rice with 196 grams and the caloric value of 2000 calorie diet for 1 day and night.      - Energy: One cup of rice provides about 216 calories, of which 185 calories from sugar, 14.7 calories from fat, and 17.2 calories from protein. This amount of energy meets about 11% of the energy needs (according to a 2000 calorie / day diet). - Hydrates: The total number of carbohydrates in the cup of Vietnamese white rice is about 44.8 grams. In which digestible fiber accounts for 14%, the rest is sugar. - The protein: The amount of protein is about 5 grams, meeting 10% of the daily needs of the Vietnamese people. - Fat: The fat content in that am...

  Every year, when the flood season comes back (around the seventh lunar month) is also the time when the sky rice plants rise strongly. Where the water rises, the rice grows that high. The five or seven meter tall rice plant is commonplace. By September the rice blooms, a few weeks later it starts to ripen. But only 1 to 2 seeds are ripe per day, it takes about 2 weeks for the rice to fully ripen. When ripe, the rice flowers are vertical, not curved like other types of rice. The rice is only ripe at night, so it is only harvested at dawn because when the sun gets high, the rice seeds will fall off and then sink into the water or drift, spread everywhere. Sky rice rises in the middle of a vast field of water, so when harvested, it is only possible to use a canoe with a platform in the middle and two bamboo poles on either side. The pole works to beat the rice flowers into the plate to let the ripe seeds fall. Going against the canoe from the time the chicken crows to the sunrise is...