What is Unrinsed rice?

Unrinsed rice is rice that hasn’t had its extra bits cleaned off yet.

Imagine you’re eating a bowl of cereal in the morning, and there are little pieces of the box mixed in with your cereal, those are like the extra bits in unrinsed rice. When we cook rice, sometimes we want it to be just the tiny white grains, not all the bigger, fluffier parts that come with it.

Rice is like a grainy snack that people eat all over the world. But before it’s cooked, it often has some extra bits attached, kind of like how sometimes you find little pieces of paper stuck in your cereal box.

When we rinse rice, we're giving it a quick bath in water to wash off those extra bits. It's like shaking out a bag of chips to get rid of the crumbs, it makes the rice cleaner and sometimes changes how it tastes or feels when you cook it.

If you don’t rinse it, those extra bits stay on the rice, that’s why it's called unrinsed rice!