保障粮食安全，促进营养健康：黑米主食化未来可期

正稻米是人类主要食物来源之一。除淀粉外,稻米还含丰富多样的营养物质,包括蛋白质、维生素、膳食纤维、类黄酮等次生代谢物、不饱和脂肪酸油、矿物质等~(1])。这些营养素存在于果皮、种皮、糊粉层、胚和胚乳之中。然而,几千年来,出于对口感美味的追求,消费者偏爱精米,把谷物中约80%的营养物质和有益成分当作米糠,没有很好地利用。

Ensuring food security and promoting nutrition and health: making black rice staple food for the future

Black rice has been regarded as food for health and longevity in Chinese culture for thousands of years. However the consumption of black rice has been low because of the difficulty in cooking and poor palatability. Recent progress in genomic breeding has produced black rice varieties with good cooking texture and palatability. Here we propose to change our dietary habit to make black rice staple food in our daily life. We expect that such change will not only make fundamental impacts in our nutrition, health and food security, it will also bring far reaching effects on sustainable development of the society and agriculture.