The amount of rice bran, from the rice production of Thailand in 2011, which has been found highly at 3.06 million tons
Rice bran has been left more than 7-8 percent of the whole rice grain.
Rice bran is highly nutritious because it has various antioxidants that impart beneficial effects on human health such as γ-oryzanol, tocotrienols, ferulic acid, and any other phenolic compounds.
The rice bran was used for animal’s feed and rice bran oil industries.
Moreover, as the pigmented rice has been revealed for its high health-promoting value, nowadays the health-concern consumers have increasingly consumed more amount of pigmented rice instead of the white rice. A Thai popular pigmented rice is homnil rice.