{"id":21603,"date":"2024-03-17T01:38:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T20:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21603"},"modified":"2025-04-06T13:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T07:50:57","slug":"rice-bran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rice-bran\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Rice Bran?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Rice Bran<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of the main\u00a0byproducts in the process\u00a0of rice milling.<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0outer brown layer of brown rice and is separated during the milling process.<\/li>\n<li>One hundred kilogram (100 kg) of paddy rice will generate approximately 5\u221210 kg of bran.<\/li>\n<li>The bran fraction\u00a0contains 14-18% oil.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>Rice bran oil is\u00a0popular as a &#8220;healthy oil&#8221; in Japan, Asia,\u00a0and particularly India.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0pale yellow, odourless,\u00a0nutty-flavoured oil with a\u00a0sweet taste.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a good source of unsaturated fats, vitamin E,\u00a0and other important\u00a0nutrients.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0nutrient composition of rice bran\u00a0depends on the rice variety\u00a0and the efficiency of the\u00a0milling system.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is currently\u00a0mostly used as animal feed. The\u00a0oily nature makes bran an\u00a0excellent binder for animal feeds.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Health Effects:\n<ul>\n<li>It has\u00a0anti-diabetic,\u00a0lipid-lowering, hypotensive, antioxidant, and\u00a0anti-inflammatory effects, while its consumption also\u00a0improves bowel function.<\/li>\n<li>It contains substances that might\u00a0decrease how much cholesterol the body absorbs.<\/li>\n<li>It might also\u00a0decrease calcium absorption, which might\u00a0help prevent certain types of\u00a0kidney stones from forming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Directorate General of Foreign Trade?<\/h3>\n<p>This Directorate, with headquarters at New Delhi, is responsible for formulating and implementing the Foreign Trade Policy with the main objective of promoting India&#8217;s exports. The DGFT also issues scripts\/authorization to exporters and monitors their corresponding obligations through a network of 24 regional offices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/economy\/india-extends-ban-on-de-oiled-rice-bran-export-by-four-months\/2003466\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India extends ban on de-oiled rice bran export by four months<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice Bran is one of the main byproducts in the process of rice milling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}