parboiled rice

noun

: white rice that has been soaked, steamed, and dried before milling : converted rice

You can always tell uncooked parboiled rice by its translucent kernels; rice that has not been parboiled has opaque grains.

—Corby Kummer

Examples of parboiled rice in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The government clarified late on Thursday that parboiled rice, which represented 7.4 million tons of exports in 2022, was not included in the ban. —Reuters, CNN, 20 July 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1946, in the meaning defined above