Rice, millet, rice, what is the difference?

One, the difference in color: rice is rice-white, millet is yellow, rice is golden yellow.

Second, the difference in form: rice is a small pike-shaped, millet is smaller than rice, small round grain, rice is also pike-shaped, the appearance of the shell.

Three, edible differences: rice and millet can be washed and cooked directly into rice or porridge to eat; rice can not be eaten directly, must be shelled in order to make rice into food.

Four, the concept of difference:

1, rice, rice is cleaned, hulled, milled, finished product finishing process made after the finished product.

2, millet, also known as corn, ancient called Wo, is the product of the husked grain, because of its small grains, diameter of about 1.5 millimeters or so, hence the name.

3, rice is a kind of herbaceous rice genus, belongs to the cereal, but also in the genus of rice as a grain of the most major and longest one, distinguished from dry rice. Native to China and India, seven thousand years ago the Yangtze River basin in China to grow rice.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Rice (大米). p>Baidu Encyclopedia - Rice (food)

Baidu Encyclopedia - Millet (annual herb in the family Gramineae Dogwood)

Baidu Encyclopedia - Rice