name: Red Rice

flavor_db_name_variants: red rice

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Red rice

id: 235

name_scientific: Oryza rufipogon

description: Oryza rufipogon, known as brownbeard rice,[citation needed] wild rice and red rice, is a member of the genus Oryza. It has a close evolutionary relation to Oryza sativa, the rice grown as a major food crop throughout the world. O. rufipogon is listed as a "noxious weed" by the United States, and is listed as a noxious weed in Alabama, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, and Vermont. According to the North American Plant Protection Association, O. rufipogon blends in with cultivated O. sativa so well that it cannot be detected. In this position it competes with the cultivated rice and uses valuable fertilizer and space. O. rufipogon sheds most of its seeds before the harvest, therefore contributing little to the overall yield. In addition, the rice grains produced by the plant are not eaten by consumers, who see it as a strange foreign particle in otherwise white rice.

itis_id: 504068

wikipedia_id: Oryza_rufipogon

picture_file_name: 235.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 69384

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:32:16.000Z

legacy_id: 250

food_group: Cereals and cereal products

food_subgroup: Cereals

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:28.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:20.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 4529

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00235