Traditionally rice is cooked in the afternoon and excess water is drained. After the rice cools down to room temperature, it is soaked fully in water and stored in an earthen clay pot. This covered pot with soaked rice is left overnight at regular room temperature. The rice would ferment by the next morning and is eaten for breakfast.

The lactic acid bacteria break down the antinutritional factors in rice resulting in an improved bioavailability of micronutrients and minerals such as iron, potassium and calcium.

For example, after 12 hours of fermentation of 100 grams of rice, the availability of iron changed from 3.4 mg to 73.91mg.


Dr. Palaniappan Manickam MD, MPH
Internal Medicine | Gastroenterology | Epidemiologist


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