Why is brown rice brown?

Brown rice is essentially what white rice looks like before it’s refined. Processing removes the outside hull or husk from both white and brown rice. To turn de-hulled brown rice into the white rice we buy in stores, processing further removes the bran and germ. read more

Before white rice went through the refining process, it at one time looked exactly like the brown stuff. Brown, unlike white rice, still has the side hull and bran. read more

Brown rice is whole grain rice, with the inedible outer hull removed; white rice is the same grain with the hull, bran layer and cereal germ removed. Red rice, gold rice, and black rice (sometimes known as purple rice) are all whole rices, but with a differently-pigmented outer layer. read more