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Jasmine Rice

Jasmine Rice

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Jasmine rice (Thai: ข้าวหอมมะลิ; Vietnamese: Gạo thơm thượng hạng; Chinese: 泰国香米; Tàiguó xiāngmǐ), also known as Thai hom mali or Thai fragrant rice, is a long-grain variety of rice that has a sweet aromatic fragrance, a subtle pandan-like (Pandanus amaryllifolius-leaves) aroma caused by 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline.

Jasmine rice is grown primarily in Thailand, and to a lesser degree in Laos, Cambodia, and southern Vietnam. The grains cling and are somewhat sticky when cooked, though less sticky than glutinous short-grain rice (Oryza sativa var. glutinosa), as it has less amylopectin. It is still about three times more sticky than American long-grain rice. It is moist and soft in texture when cooked, with a slightly sweet flavor. Like with other rices, freshness and maximal fragrance is retained within six months from the time it is harvested, after which the rice becomes dry and fragrance decreases when cooked.

To harvest jasmine rice, the long stalks are cut and threshed. The rice can then be left in a hulled form and sold as brown rice or shucked and sold as white rice.

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