Sensory characteristics
Eating quality of rice largely depends on the textural properties
of cooked rice, which is determined by the degree of cooking
and the riceewater ratio (Juliano, 1985). Before actual cooking of
rice, optimum water to rice ratio for the best eating quality of
milled rice was determined subjectively on the basis of taste and
tenderness of the cooked rice. Five hundred gram rice was
cooked in a covered boiling pan (capacity 4 L) for about 15 min,
using four different ratios of rice and water (1:1.5, 1:2, 1:2.5 and
1:3). Based on the eating quality, the optimum rice water ratio
was found as 1:2.