Rice Facts

The Japanese have a popular dish called 'chicken rice' where ketchup is used to flavor fried rice, often served wrapped in an omelet as 'omurice.'

Rice is the chief food for half the people of the world.

During World War II, the company that would become Uncle Ben's supplied rice to the U.S. Armed Forces under a government contract—their parboiled rice was prized because it could be air-dropped to troops without weevil infestation and cooked faster than regular rice.