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The purpose of rice milling is to remove the hulls and bran from harvested, dried rough rice and to produce a milled, polished, or white rice. The meaning of the term milling varies appreciably, not only in the many different industries in which the term is used, but also within the grain industry. In the rice industry, milling can refer either to the overall operations in a rice mill—cleaning, shelling, bran removal, size separation, etc.—or it can refer simply to the one operation of removing of the bran or outer layers from the brown rice to produce a whole grain white rice product.
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Wadsworth, J.I. (1991). Milling. In: Luh, B.S. (eds) Rice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3754-4_10
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