Efficient
utilization of food products, food wastes and
unconventional food sources of human consumption would
result in increased nutritional value of products made from
available resources Houston (1972). The nutritive value and
health enhancing properties of rice bran has been well
documented Sharma and Chauhan (2002). Rice bran is light
brown, slightly oily, unstable meal produced as a byproduct
of the rice milling process. It contains approximately 17%
fat, 6% crude fiber Houston (1972). Current research has
showed that rice bran may contain even 100 different
antioxidants, as new ones are being discovered. Among the
most powerful of these are Oryzanols, Tocopherols and
Tocotrienols. Defatting/lipid extraction markedly increases
the proportion of dietary fiber and crude protein contents of
rice bran Godber et al. (2002), Iqbal et al. (2005), but still
rice bran is an underutilized co-product from rice milling.