“…Therefore, it could be considered a promising carrier of useful compounds after fortification. Literature during the last couple of decades has mainly focused on white rice fortification with nutrients coming from the outer layers of rough rice kernels (bran, husk, and so on) which has been extensively applied using the well-known parboiling process (Elbert, Tolaba, & Suarez, 2001;Miah, Haque, Douglass, & Clarke, 2002;Oli, Ward, Adhikari, & Torley, 2014;Sridhar & Manohar, 2003). Most of these studies aimed to clarify the phenomena occurring inside rice grains during parboiling, among which are water diffusion and starch gelatinization within the grain, in order to optimize the quality of parboiled rice by predicting the soaking behavior JFDS-2019-0511 Submitted 4/8/2019, Accepted 7/25/2019 of the paddy.…”