ABSTRACT
Again, in this industrial environment, much of the new products had necessarily to have been made from rice flour. Rice flour itself too thus became a kind of another rice product and it evolved into an item of industrial production and commerce, for being converted into various products in downstream industries. This scene thus provides another case of regional difference in the kind of rice products – modern industrial products, including rice flour, in the West. To summarise, we can say, we have largely (a) traditional cooked cakes and fries made from wet-ground rice (largely waxy rice) in southeast and east Asia, (b) whole-grain traditional products made from usual non-waxy rice in south Asia, and (c) modern industrial products made largely from dry-ground flour in the West.
