#nutritional rice

[karolinedgmachinery]

nutrional rice extrusion machine FRK fortified rice kernels plant artifi...

[vegan-nom-noms]

Tempeh Burritos

[colourfulfoodnutrition]

[morethansalad]

Buffalo Tofu Cutlets with Celery Ranch Slaw (Vegan)

[nashvillethotchicken]

Thinking about Lestat seeing Louis’s eating patterns as a waste of his gift/himself while Armand gives Louis food that he literally can not enjoy or digest just so he has something on his stomach

[bitchapalooza]

Don't mind me, just writing my new funniest part of my zosan fic lmao

[withering-heights]

I don’t know what it says about me that I hear that a meal is 250 calories and I’m go ‘wow that’s a lot’. Like that is a normal amount of calories for a meal (a small amount for a meal even) my disordered ass just has a fucked sense of how much something is.

[bizlybebo]

girl jelp i forgout to eat

[geeky-healthy-updates]

Teriyaki chicken, peppers, and rice

[stiltonbasket]

Pregnant! Xichen looks at his no meat dinner and starts to cry over it. "there are no chicken *sobs*". Lan Queen tells him that no meat means no meat and Lan Zhan already go to find meat for his brother. When he's at Qinghe he can eat anything he wants, and he craves food that he can't eat at home.

The sect rules actually make exceptions for pregnant disciples (the healers insisted, after one too many expecting mothers ended up sick in the infirmary after being told to either ignore their cravings or travel all the way down to Caiyi to buy meat there). However, Lan Xichen craves chicken so much while his children are on the way that his loved ones have to band together to make sure he leaves room for vegetables as well.

[sunkissed-abs]

Mango Ginger Rice Bowl

[vegan-nom-noms]

Black Pepper Tofu & Cauliflower

[colourfulfoodnutrition]

Veggie Rice Paper Rolls

Ingredients:

avocado

tempeh (16g protein per serve)

carrot

capsicum

cucumber

baby spinach / lettuce

rice paper

rice noodles

sesame seeds

[morethansalad]

Easy 30-Minute Creamy Vegan Chicken Skillet (with Mushrooms)

[certifiedceliac]

Baked Risotto - Savory Rice Pudding (via Mouthwatering Vegan)

[reasonsforhope]

“Until as recently as 1970, India was a land with more than 100,000 distinct varieties of rice. Across a diversity of landscapes, soils, and climates, native rice varieties, also called “landraces,” were cultivated by local farmers. And these varieties sprouted rice diversity in hue, aroma, texture, and taste.

But what sets some landraces in a class of their own—monumentally ahead of commercial rice varieties—is their nutrition profiles. This has been proved by the research of Debal Deb, a farmer and agrarian scientist whose studies have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and books.

In the mid-1960s, with backing from the U.S. government, India’s agricultural policy introduced fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation facilities, and high-yielding varieties of crops under the moniker of a “Green Revolution” to combat hunger. Instead, it began an epidemic of monocultures and ecological destruction.

In the early 1990s, after realizing that more than 90% of India’s native rice varieties had been replaced by a handful of high-yielding varieties through the Green Revolution, Deb began conserving indigenous varieties of rice. Today, on a modest 1.7-acre farm in Odisha, India, Deb cultivates and shares 1,485 of the 6,000 unique landraces estimated to remain in India.

Deb and collaborators have quantified the vitamin, protein, and mineral content in more than 500 of India’s landraces for the first time, in the lab he founded in 2014, Basudha Laboratory for Conservation. In one extraordinary discovery, the team documented 12 native varieties of rice that contain the fatty acids required for brain development in infants.

“These varieties provide the essential fatty acids and omega-3 fatty acids that are found in mother’s milk but lacking in any formula foods,” Deb says. “So instead of feeding formula foods to undernourished infants, these rice varieties can offer a far more nutritious option...”

Deb’s conservation efforts are not to preserve a record of the past, but to help India revive resilient food systems and crop varieties. His vision is to enable present and future agriculturists to better adapt to climate change...

Deb conserves scores of climate-resilient varieties of rice originally sourced from Indigenous farmers, including 16 drought-tolerant varieties, 20 flood-tolerant varieties, 18 salt-tolerant varieties, and three submergence-tolerant varieties. He shares his varieties freely with hundreds of small farmers for further cultivation, especially those farming in regions prone to these kinds of climate-related calamities. In 2022 alone, Deb has shared his saved seed varieties with more than 1,300 small farmers through direct and indirect seed distribution arrangements in several states of India.

One of these farmers is Shamika Mone. Mone received 24 traditional rice varieties from Deb on behalf of Kerala Organic Farmers Association, along with training on maintaining the purity of the seeds. Now these farmers have expanded their collection, working with other organic farming collectives in the state of Kerala to grow around 250 landraces at two farm sites. While they cultivate most of their varieties for small-scale use and conservation, they also cultivate a few traditional rice varieties for wider production, which yield an average of 1.2 tons per acre compared with the 1 ton per acre of hybrid varieties.

“But that’s only in terms of yield,” Mone says. “We mostly grow these for their nutritional benefits, like higher iron and zinc content, antioxidants, and other trace elements. Some varieties are good for lactating mothers, while some are good for diabetic patients. There are many health benefits.”

These native varieties have proven beneficial in the face of climate change too.

With poor rains in 2016, for example, the traditional folk rice variety Kuruva that Mone had planted turned out to be drought-tolerant and pest-resistant. And in 2018, due to the heavy rains and floods, she lost all crops but one: a folk rice variety called Raktashali that survived underwater for two days.

“They have proven to be lifesavers for us,” Mone says.” -via Yes! Magazine, 12/14/22