Explore

Rice is a nutritious staple food for much of the world, and now researchers in Korea have made it more nutritious, adding lab grown muscle and fat. The resulting pink tinged rice grains might not be appetising to look at, but according to the researchers has a ‘pleasant and novel flavour’. “Imagine obtaining all the […]

Rice is the staple food of the Japanese people. Japan consumes approximately 8 million tons of rice annually, which makes around 55kg per person per year; of which 98% is domestically produced. The rice fields, where rice is grown, account for 54.4% of all Japan's cultivated land (as of 2017). Many Japanese people f...