Materials and methods
Full fat rice bran, type BW 355 (raw and parboiled) used for
experiments was obtained from the local rice mills. Distilled
water was used as the solvent for aqueous extraction experiments.
N-Hexane was used as the organic solvent.
Fresh rice bran was screened to pass through a 710m
aperture sieve to remove broken grains, hull fragments, paddy
kernels and foreign materials. Rice bran was stored in sealed
polyethylene bags in refrigerator at 0 ◦C to control the growth
of rice bran FFA. Bran used for determination of effect of
stabilization method was treated and stored accordingly as
described in the following sections.