Black Rice

Blackrice its pleasant nutty flavour and slightly chewy  texture mades a dessert kheerrice pudding will make you sigh with pleasure! its colour changes to dramatic purple when cooked, so it is also known as purple rice. Manipuri aromatic black rice or chak-hao rice contains high medicinal values. Chak-hao rice contains nutrients like fibre, iron, carbohydrate, fat with rich methionine, vitamin b, e and amino acids.it is an anti-oxidant food for all diseases which can benefit the health of people afflicted with diabetes, cancer, hiv,  brain disease, heart disease, malnutrition in children, allergy and tiredness. This rice contains nutrients like fibre, iron, carbohydrate, fat with rich methionine, vitamin b, e and amino acids.black rice (chak hao) was proclaimed as a 'superfood' by the world health organisation, who. Dr. Zhimin xu,  a researcher, confirmed that just a spoonful of black rice bran contains more health promoting anthocyanin antioxidants than are found in a spoonful of blueberries, but with less sugar and more fibres and vitamin e antioxidants".that the local chak hao rice came with the people of manipur, particularly meiteis when they first settled on this land is the belief among the manipuris.

Detail : Chakhao amubi and chakhao angouba were named after the black and white colour of this particular rice. In ancient china, black rice was considered the finest grain and only served to the emperor. So, it is also called forbidden rice,as it was restricted to use by general people. Black rice is, sometimes, known as spiritual rice among the buddhists as it was served to gautama buddha while he meditated.