Special Cultivation Black Rice 1 kg

About Ancient Grain Black Rice 1 kg (Special Cultivation in Yuri Honjo City)

It is delicious black rice grown by special cultivation in Yuri Honso City.

Mix the black rice it with white rice/brown rice in small quantities (approximately 1 tablespoon to 3 bowls of white/brown rice) and cook to make a light purple-colored delicious rice.

This black rice makes the taste of rice more tasteful with its attractive crunchy and firm texture.

By combining the traditional Natural Return Farming Method and the Aigamo Farming Method, we able to bring up healthy black rice which is full of its original taste.

Please adjust the amount of mixed black rice with white/brown rice as you like.
But our recommendation is to cook at a ratio of 7 : 1 (White/Brown Rice : Black Rice).

Once you experience this rice's aroma and texture, you will never get satisfied with the normal rice.

Black rice is rich in black pigments like (anthocyanins), minerals, vitamins, polyphenols and other nutrients that are often lacking in modern people.

Therefore it is also called as "Rice Medicine", and often used for medicinal dishes.

Please try the black rice cultivated with special cultivation method by all means.

The special cultivation method is a method based on the thought for the people who will eat the food.

It will bring excitement to your regular meal times.

Also available in 3 kg set!
Click here to go to the product link for Ancient Grain Black Rice (Special Cultivation Black Rice from Yuri Honjo City) 3 kg Set

About Black Rice: Black Rice Nutrients and Easy Way to Cook Black Rice
Black rice is said to be derived from China. When you cook black rice, it has a dark color like red rice's color. Although we may not see black rice that much in our dining table, black rice has drawn much attention in recent years because of its nutrients.
This is an article where we talk more about black rice's nutrients. There also information about easy way to cook black rice.
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About Ancient Grain (Black Rice)

Ancient grain (black rice) is a rice that contains purple-black pigment of anthocyanin in the seed coat of brown rice.

It is rich in vitamins such as Vitamin B and Vitamin E, minerals such as phosphorus and calcium, and anthocyanins as antioxidants.
It is characterized by its high nutritional value.

Black rice has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine in China because it has nourishment and tonic effect, and also an antioxidant function (the function that eliminates active oxygen generated in the body).
Han pharmaceutical book states that black rice has medicinal effects such as increasing the energy, strengthen spleen and liver, and enhance lung function by hematopoiesis.
Even now, black rice is often used to make a dish for medication (medicinal dish).

Black rice inherits the characteristics of wild rice's plant.
The height of the rice plant can grow over 1.5 meters.
The cultivation takes more time and effort than normal rice because black rice's plant is easy to fall and shedding away.

Please enjoy the delicious black rice that rich in natural nourishment.

Ancient Grain (Black Rice) is
a Radioactivity Analyzed Product

The Ancient Grain (Black Rice) produced by Yuri Honjo City is a product that has been tested for radioactivity analysis. (Iodine - 131 / cesium - 134 / cesium - 137).
All three exams result is passed without detection.

This product is safe to be consumed by children and pregnant woman.

【 Measurement Result 】
・ Cesium - 134: Not detected (Detection limit: 0.64 Bq / kg)
・ Cesium - 137: Not detected (Detection limit: 0.71 Bq / kg)

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- RIKEN National Research and Development Institutes -

How to Cook Black Rice Deliciously

STEPS TO COOK BLACK RICE DELICIOUSLY

About Ancient Grain Black Rice's Cultivation

A rice produced by Yuri Honjo City that is cultivated in the blessed land full with a high quality and abundant water veins of Mount Chōkai, the soil of rice fields is suitable for making delicious rice.

In addition, most of the rice fields are located in the valley which has temperature difference that can provide suitable conditions for rice growth and harvest.

1. Natural Return Farming Method

This method is done by doing farming as close to natural environment as possible.
- Done by increasing the amount of indigenous bacteria that have been established in each land.
- Radically improve the weak energy value of irrigation water.
- Cultivation takes measures that correspond to crop physiology as much as possible.
That is the 3 basic pillars for doing natural return farming method.

2. Aigamo Farming Method

A farming method is done with releasing Aigamo ducks (cross-breed of wild and domestic ducks) to the rice fields to feed on pests and weeds.
Because the ducks are swimming there, the water's turbidity produces a suppression effect.

This Aigamo farming method could suppress weeds which is the biggest problem for producing rice or doing pesticide-free / chemical fertilizer-free cultivation.

3. No-till Farming Method

A farming method that produces rice without disturbing the soil through tillage.
By doing this, you can see a traditional and natural scenes such as fireflies and loaches breed in the paddy fields and many birds passing by the field.

This method is very attractive because it only requires half fuel for the farming work, and suppress the methane gas which has a strong environmental impact.

It can also cultivate extreme phase bacteria and extreme phase bacteria compost.

4. Paper Multi Farming Method

It is a farming method using recycled paper for environmentally friendly agriculture.
It uses recycled paper and weeds to produce suppression effect.
Since recycled agricultural paper is decomposed by the microorganisms in the rice fields, it is unnecessary to collect it.

No pesticides or chemical fertilizers are used for this farming method.
Along with the delicious taste, we deliver the "safe and secure" food.

The picture shows the former rural scenery.

Message from Rice Producer

In recent years, the concern for the safety of agricultural and livestock products has grown enormously.
The modernization and productivity improvement principal of agriculture from the postwar era turned agriculture products into chemical-based products, so consumers will have to pay for the consequence.
Considering those backgrounds, the price might be cheap although it is in large quantity.

Meanwhile in present, people become more consumptive.
Maybe it is best to not only concerned about the taste and quality, but also about the food safety as well.
Because there are people who are concerned about the food safety, agricultural products such as “pesticide-free” are currently in trend.
However, there are standards for those "pesticide-free" products. And there are many different cultivation methods.
We are building a safe and delicious farming method from many of those methods that are pesticide-free and doesn't use any chemical fertilizer.

• 1. Keep on maintaining the field's fertility to make the constitution of rice stronger.
  It will make the rice plant become strong against diseases and pests.
• 2. Reduce the number of chemical fertilizers and use natural fertilizer instead to harvest rich and nutritious food.

It is The Suda Corporation's way of thinking about agriculture.

Rice can actually grow even without pesticides and fertilizers.
It can grow with the original power from the rice, and it can still grow without human's hands.
That is the awaken power from the plants.

Besides, if you give only natural fertilizers to it, you can make safe rice grown only with substances that exist in nature.

With this statement as our base, we are providing brown rice, white rice, and black rice based on the four farming methods (Natural Return Farming Method, Aigamo Farming Method, No-till Farming Method, and Paper Multi Farming Method).

- The Presentative from Suda Corporation, Ms. Meiko Suda.