Rice milk
Rice milk is a form of grain milk . It is made from rice and is therefore not allowed to be sold as milk in the EU and may therefore not be sold. a. marketed as a "rice drink" (see illustration).
Rice milk is made from whole grain rice, which is first ground, boiled with plenty of water and then mashed to create a mass of creamy, slimy consistency, which is then fermented and filtered. The thus obtained filtrate is with vegetable oil mixed and emulsified .
Some varieties are mixed with rice oil , salt, sugar (mostly raw cane sugar ) or flavorings (e.g. vanilla , chocolate ), mostly also vegetable thickeners such as guar gum or carrageenan .
Enrichment of vitamins and minerals (especially calcium ) is common, since rice milk, unlike cow's milk, is very poor in minerals. It contains little protein , hardly any fat , no lactose and no gluten .
In Europe , rice milk is mainly used in the kitchen by vegans and people with a milk protein allergy or lactose intolerance . For infants, however , rice milk is unsuitable as a substitute for breast milk , as it does not contain important nutrients and there is a risk of deficiency symptoms such as anemia and rickets .
Other non-alcoholic rice drinks are Kokkoh and Amazake .
Like rice, in the grains of which arsenic accumulates ten times as much as in other grains, rice milk can also contain concentrations of this poisonous semi-metal which are harmful to health . In September 2013, the Food and Drug Administration found up to 46 micrograms of inorganic arsenic per liter in rice drinks (for comparison: the maximum value for drinking water in the EU is 10 micrograms per liter).
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- ↑ Regulation (EU) No. 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of December 17, 2013 (Annex VII) , accessed on November 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Christiane Schäfer: Praxisbuch Lebensmittelallergie , 2007, p. 65.
- ↑ a b UGB: Grain Drinks: A Dream in Rice?
- ↑ Information from the Swiss Nutrition Society ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Richard Stone: Gift im Korn , sueddeutsche.de of May 17, 2010, accessed on November 2, 2014.
- ↑ Arsenic makes rice genotoxic , Ärzteblatt of July 23, 2013, accessed on November 2, 2014.
- ↑ M. Banerjee, N. Banerjee, P. Bhattacharjee, D. Mondal, PR Lythgoe, M. Martínez, J. Pan, DA Polya, AK Giri: High arsenic in rice is associated with elevated genotoxic effects in humans. In: Scientific reports. Volume 3, July 2013, p. 2195, ISSN 2045-2322 . doi : 10.1038 / srep02195 . PMID 23873074 .
- ↑ Arsenic in Rice and Rice Products on the FDA website ( PDF with detailed results , 767 kB), English.
