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Article: Americans are eating more rice. (includes related article) (Food Consumption)
- Article from:
- Food Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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Although rice has not historically been a major item in the American diet, U.S. consumption is on the rise and is expected to continue increasing during the rest of the 1990's.
Continuing to move rice away from merely side-dish status at meals will be the fast-growing Asian-American and Hispanic-American populations, improved health awareness among consumers coupled with a perception of rice as a healthy food, greater convenience in preparing rice, tastiness of rice with many entrees, a large variety of prepared rice dishes and flavored mixes available, a greater number of restaurants serving rice dishes, and adaptation of rice by-products (such as brokens, rice ...