Coloured rice cultivars showed stronger antioxidant and freeradical
scavenging activities than the white rice cultivar, with
TAC differing between different coloured strains, and TPC varying
between cultivars of the same rice colour. Furthermore, the antioxidant
capacity of coloured rice was found to originate mainly from
the seed capsule. This provides important information relevant to
the rice milling process and to the future breeding of cultivars with
specific colours.