Rakthashali Red Rice (Raw)
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Rakthashali Red Rice (Raw)
Description
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Medicinal rice with innumerable health benefits
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Organic and 100% natural
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Recommended for pregnant women and lactating mothers
One of the rarest and most precious varieties of rice that we have is Rakthashali Red Rice. This small and slender-grained rice is known for its nutritive and medicinal properties. It comes to us as unpolished raw rice with full bran. Rakthashali Red Rice is good for making kanji or rice porridge and payasam. Steamed rice can be eaten with Indian curries. It can be consumed by all ages especially the aged, the ailing, and the young.
The Story
Charaka Samhita, which is the oldest text on Ayurveda medicine mentions the curative properties of Raktashali Red Rice. It is known to help produce blood cells and considered to be very good for women who are anaemic. We also have anecdotal evidence from our own farmer’s family that the rice is recommended during chemotherapy to stabilise or retain blood count.
Raktashali has high levels of Vitamin B5 which help in the production of red blood cells. Therefore it is good for women and also persons undergoing various high-stress illnesses and treatments.
Bio Basics procures Raktashali Red Rice from two farms in Kozhikode and Wayanad. Now our Tamil Nadu farmer group that has been trying to grow Raktashali also harvested their organically grown Raktashali. So, it comes from two sources. Since it is medicinal rice, it comes as unpolished raw rice rather than parboiled. The plant is very sensitive to climatic variations. The grain is dense with nutrients. The rice is harvested in December-January. It is aged and milled fresh every one or two months.
We consider it one of the top five rice varieties that we carry.
Health
- Aids metabolism and weight loss
- Builds stamina and immunity
- Reduces the risk of cancer, anemia, and diabetes
Alternate Name and Name in Other Languages
| Hindi | रक्तशाली लाल चावल (Rakthashali Lal Chawal) |
| Bengali | রক্তশালি লাল ধান (Rakthashali Lal Dhan) |
| Tamil | ரத்த அரிசி நேர் (Raththa Arisi Nēr) or ரக்தசாலி சிவப்பு அரிசி (Rakthashali Civappu Arisi) |
| Telugu | రక్తశాలి రెడ్ రైస్ (Rakthashali Red Rice) |
| Kannada | ರಕ್ತಶಾಲಿ ಕೆಂಪು ಅಕ್ಕಿ (Rakthashali Kempu Akki) |
| Malayalam | രക്തസാലി ചുവന്ന അരി (Rakthasāli Cuwanna Ari) |
| Marathi | रक्तशाली लाल तांदूळ (Rakthashali Lal Tandul) |
| Gujarati | રક્તશાળી લાલ ચોખો (Rakthashali Lal Chokho) |
| Punjabi | ਰਕ੍ਤਸ਼ਾਲੀ ਲਾਲ ਚਾਵਲ (Rakthashali Lal Chāval) |
| Urdu | رکتھاشالی لال چاول (Rakthashali Lal Chawal) |
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Do not expect basmati rice looks or fragrance but the rice tastes very nice. Goes very well if you make Dalia with vegetables. Not difficult to make at all ( which I was apprehensive about). Very satiating even in a small portion. My first taste was with Rajmah and they paired very well I felt.
I have ordered 5 kg red rice from you It’s full of stones and stones are red in colour and wheat colour To find the stones is really impossible I don’t like to order from you again
I have received the rice spilled by being torn all over the floor from the packaged box and the team is very reckless to respond and all excuses.
I ordered 2 kgs of Rakthashali rice. You added broken rice to it and sent me. This is my first order and I'm not happy with it
We regret that you feel this way. We would like to explain the process that our rice goes through & hope you will feel differently.
Our raktashali rice that is unpolished is milled in a small mill in Kozhikode district in small batches . Since it is a delicate rice some amount of breakage happens during milling .
In fact breakage of raw rice is a common problem with small mills.
After milling it is sent to us and we do manual seiving of the rice removing as much of the brokens as possible and then only pack it for the customer .
But a very small percentage of brokens is inevitable in small mill processing.
It is rice that is milled in large automated mills and polished that can give rice with no brokens. Small scale unpolished organic rice processing can't be done in such automated large mills.
Excellent taste
