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Colorful idioms used in English
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Colorful English!
Word or Phrase: Part of Speech: Idiom or General?: Usage? Restricted?
white rice noun general
food term extremely common No
Meaning:
rice from which the hull and bran have been removed and lacking most of the natural nutrition
Example(s):
Since white rice has less taste and is generally less nutritious than brown rice, why do so many people waste their food money on it?.
Note: See brown rice.
For your dietary information:
White rice has slightly fewer calories and less fat, but also less protein. Brown rice has 4 1/2 times the dietary fiber, more of most of the B vitamins, more than 3 times as much Vitamin E and anywhere from 20% to over 300% more of minerals such as magnesium, phosphorus and zinc.

Colorful English!
Word or Phrase:	Part of Speech:	Idiom or General?:	Usage?	Restricted?
white rice	noun	general food term	extremely common	No
Meaning:
rice from which the hull and bran have been removed and lacking most of the natural nutrition
Example(s):
Since white rice has less taste and is generally less nutritious than brown rice, why do so many people waste their food money on it?.
Note: See brown rice. For your dietary information: White rice has slightly fewer calories and less fat, but also less protein. Brown rice has 4 1/2 times the dietary fiber, more of most of the B vitamins, more than 3 times as much Vitamin E and anywhere from 20% to over 300% more of minerals such as magnesium, phosphorus and zinc.

Colorful idioms used in EnglishThis page ©2000 by Nicholas E. Miller

Colorful idioms used in English
This page ©2000 by Nicholas E. Miller