Basmati Rice, a variety of long grain
rice with a fine texture, is the world's best rice that one can use for
cooking and the leading aromatic fine quality rice in the world trade.
Basmati rice means the "queen of fragrance" or the perfumed
one. This type of rice has been grown in the foothills of the Himalayas
for thousands of years. In India, Basmati rice is characterized by extra
long, superfine slender grains having a length to breadth ratio of more
than 3.5, sweet taste, soft texture, delicate curvature and an extra
elongation with least breadth-wise swelling on cooking. This highly
aromatic rice is India's gift to the whole world.
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