White rice, raw

Currently, rice is one of the most popular foods worldwide, almost 60% of the world's population consumes it daily as the basis of their diet, providing high protein quality. The history of this cereal goes back to Assia, between China and India are the first records of cultivation of this cereal, about 5000 years ago it expanded to other Asian countries such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, Korea and Thailand. It arrived in the Americas thanks to the Spanish colonization, by Christopher Columbus, although at the beginning its cultivation did not prosper, it was fused with other species that were in the islands today known as Haiti and the Dominican Republic, passing to the continent where the natives were adopting it. in their daily diet becoming as popular as corn.