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Is rice the seed of rice?

The rice we eat is peeled rice. In the process of peeling, the embryo structure is destroyed, leaving only the endosperm structure, and the nutrients of rice seeds are mainly stored in the endosperm. So we mainly eat the endosperm of rice. Yes Rice is a monocot. Rice seeds consist of seed coat, embryo and endosperm. Embryo consists of embryo, hypocotyl, bacon and cotyledons, and endosperm is the structure for storing nutrients. So the rice we eat is the endosperm in rice seeds. Rice is the endosperm part of rice seed structure. However, rice seeds can't grow seedlings in the ground, because the "seeds" of rice are actually harvested and shelled by people. During the processing of rice "seeds", the peel, seed coat and embryo are all removed, and the rest is mainly endosperm, which is what we usually call "rice". Because the embryo is the most important part of the seed, it will develop into a new plant in the future, so rice seeds with only endosperm can not grow seedlings in the field.