The fresh cooked rice was immediately for color measurement using a Chroma meter CR-400 (Konica Minolta Sensing Inc., Osaka, Japan). Color coordinates for the extent of lightness (L*), redness/greenness (+a*/−a*), and yellowness/blueness (+b*/−b*) were collected. The color intensity (B) was calculated using the following equation ( Lamberts et al., 2006 and Roy et al., 2008).