basmati

The Indian subcontinent eat long-grain Basmati or similar rice which fluff up into individual grains on the plate.

A pound of dry rice or beans keeps just as well, provides more food, and is cheaper unless you're buying basmati.

Costco’s basmati rice is excellent quality and can be ordered online 20lb for $27 delivered.

But yeah, unless you're doing say, basmati brown rice (lowest glycemic load), rice isn't exactly densely nutritious compared to it's calorie/glycemic load.

Update: this recipe has the desired consistency (though I switched to basmati rice, so that's another factor).

I'll pick up some basmati today, during Day Three of the local Panamanian chili pepper search.

The choice of rice matters too, basmati tends to stay separate.

See 'basmati' and a bunch of other stunts they've tried.

I recall many years ago there was a row when a bunch of biotech firms were trying to patent the genome for Basmati rice and Turmeric.

I had no idea that the delicious Indian and Pakistani basmati rice that I buy from my local asian grocery store might have been grown in sewage!

Wasn't that mostly because Basmati rice actually ended up becoming less expensive than Japanese rice - and so the spike in demand would basically ensure people from the Indian-subcontinent to get their rice supplies?

Here's a classic example: In response to a Texas company that tried to patent an indigenous Basmati species under the name Texmati, the govt imposed a blanket ban on the export of any indigenous DNA outside.

It was simply a hybrid of basmati obtained from cross-breeding with an US long rice variety." RiceTec has a patent for its hybrid.

Since you didn't understand the article that you cited, I'll quote it "It should be perfectly clear that what RiceTec patented was not the genome of basmati rice or a genetically developed variety (RiceTec makes the point that all its products are natural).

The whole argument that what RiceTec has done is somehow wrong is "By including basmati name into the patent definition, RiceTec could claim wide-ranging rights over a traditional name, for which it did not acknowledge the origin or the originality, let alone the copyright." That's factually incorrect.

I saw "vegetarian rice" made out of Basmati rice last month - a clear marketing ploy to grab particular customers but my brain got mental fart and I wondered for a few seconds amused "as opposed to what - meat based rice?"

That patent does not cover anything else, such as pre-existing strains of Basmati.

Are the statistics lumping all varieties together, are we only selling them Basmati?

Rice is generally pretty boring and you need to add something to it (Basmati smells nice, but still tastes pretty bland, short grain / Japanese style rice has at least some taste, but nothing interesting).