Why is rice so popular? - Carolyn Beans

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Dig into how rice became a staple in the world’s diet, and the surprising consequences of its traditional production practices.
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Rice contributes over 20% of the calories consumed by humans each year. Korean bibimbap, Nigerian jollof, Indian biryani, Spanish paella, and countless other culinary masterpieces all begin with rice. So how did this humble grain end up in so many cuisines? Carolyn Beans investigates the global expansion of this beloved crop and the unintended consequences of its popularity.
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@TimeSpectators 9 месяцев назад

Rice truly is a global staple, feeding more than half of the world's population! Its versatility, ease of cultivation, and the way it complements so many dishes make it easy to see why it's so popular. Plus, it's the perfect canvas for a myriad of flavors from different cultures

@HobiAI 9 месяцев назад

White rice + SPAM = so yummy!

@Railhog2102 9 месяцев назад

During World War II marines in the Pacific often ate Japanese rice to keep them going, Sometimes they were infested with maggots and other bugs in the Pacific jungles

@Railhog2102 9 месяцев назад

@aegyo9272 A product of WWII because Spam was popular in the Pacific Islands like Guam during that era

@Dell-ol6hb 9 месяцев назад

Also you can harvest it twice within a year because of how fast it grows, it’s part of why China has always been so populous.

@faiziskandar7364 8 месяцев назад

Not to mention high in calories! From what I know, they are more efficient in feeding large amounts of people than other crops. This means you could feed more people with every square meter of rice paddy compared to other grain crops like wheat, sorghum, or malt. One of the reasons why East and South Asia has a higher population than any other parts of the world.

@autentik19 9 месяцев назад

a story told by ...Carolyn "Beans". :)))

@kylebaguan4337 9 месяцев назад

😂

@tomquinto1164 9 месяцев назад

I was also gonna point out how appropriate that was lol

@dsheartnd 9 месяцев назад

Rice and Beans go together 😂 Rice just wanted his wife to talk fondly about him

@EhrenLoudermilk 9 месяцев назад

Yeah, It got me as well

@archtansterpg4246 9 месяцев назад

So I'm not the only one who noticed that..😂

@KienTran-lt7vs 9 месяцев назад

Rice is so important to us Vietnamese we also have different terms for it ▪︎ Rice crops - Lúa ▪︎ Young Rice crops - Mạ ▪︎ Unmilled Rice - Thóc ▪︎ Milled, uncooked Rice - Gạo ▪︎ Dried Rice crops after havesting - Rơm ▪︎ Cooked Rice - Cơm ▪︎ Cooked sticky Rice - Xôi ▪︎ Uncooked sticky Rice - Nếp ▪︎ Steaming (the rice) - Đồ ▪︎ Harden/Burned part of the rice - Cháy ▪︎ (Rice being) burned - Khê ▪︎ (Rice being) too wet, yet uncooked - Trương ▪︎ Broken, uncooked rice - Tấm ▪︎ Rice bran - Cám ▪︎ Rice husk - Trấu ▪︎ Rice cooking failure in a spectacular way - Trên sống dưới khê, tứ bề nhão nhoét

@tdman 9 месяцев назад

Vietnamese is so fascinating. ☺️

@joshuataylor3550 9 месяцев назад

Is there a word for rice cultivation that causes climate change?

@thang1144 9 месяцев назад

@@joshuataylor3550yes, its câm mồm

@lingkim8037 9 месяцев назад

@@thang1144 Chịu :))))

@baotranchaungoc6254 9 месяцев назад

@@thang1144 Haha, hilarious.

@Sunflowersarepretty 9 месяцев назад

As a asian rice is literally our staple diet. Can't live without rice. ❤❤ I didn't actually know that growing rice also hurts the environment. You learn something new every day.

@LtZetarn 9 месяцев назад

Every farming hurt environment one way or another. There are no clean way to grow your foods.

@mrcat6433 9 месяцев назад

Rice has been grown for thousands of years. Fossil fuel burning is the main cause of climate change. Fossil fuel companies like to push the blame around to anything they like including something as simple as eating rice. We don't need to stop eating rice. We need to stop using billions of cars and thousands of ships and airplanes everyday.

@elitecol69 9 месяцев назад

Enjoy your diabetes

@theenlightenedone1283 9 месяцев назад

Uncle Roger approves hiyaaa

@cardboard952 9 месяцев назад

same (not the Asian part). Whenever I'm hungry and don't want to cook I eat 4 large bowls of rice with whats probably too much soysauce

@Baylow94 9 месяцев назад

Carolyn Beans does a video about Rice As a Nigerian, I find that coincidence hilarious. We eat Rice and Beans together as a meal, and sometimes they can be played as opposites to each other

@chobies5383 9 месяцев назад

Same with Mexicans, I've eaten rice with beans many times.

@patmugambo7929 9 месяцев назад

Lols

@vdkasdness 9 месяцев назад

in brazil we eat beans with rice every day

@katkat3458 9 месяцев назад

In our country, we have some like pork and beans (which is like 99% beans). and I eat it with rice! it tastes awesome!

@legitimatefbr9714 9 месяцев назад

@@katkat3458are you talking about baked beans with mini sausages?

@aldhieu.a.teodocio8796 9 месяцев назад

Rice is so important for us Filipinos we even have different terms for it ▪︎ Rice crops - Palay ▪︎ Rice grains - Bigas ▪︎ Rice grain - Butil ng palay/bigas ▪︎ Steamed Rice - Kanin/Sinaing ▪︎ Fried Rice - Sinangag ▪︎ Burned part of the rice - Tutong ▪︎ Foamy excess water from the steamed rice - Am ▪︎ Cold Rice - Bahaw ▪︎ Rice that has absorbed so much water - Malata ▪︎ Rice that's too dry, not yet cooked - Manigat ▪︎ Sticky Rice - Kakanin ▪︎ Way of cooking rice - Pagsaing

@elitecol69 9 месяцев назад

Also the reason why they have such a high diabetes rate

@aldhieu.a.teodocio8796 9 месяцев назад

@@elitecol69 true lmao. a lot of oldies have type 2 diabetes

@Lotschi 9 месяцев назад

Wow, amazing! 😄

@Lotschi 9 месяцев назад

@@elitecol69How is this related?

@ai_rg 9 месяцев назад

In Javanese of Indonesia too :v Rice Crop : Pari Rice Stem : Damen Rice Grain (Peeled) : Beras Rice Grain (Unpeeled From It Husk) : Gabah Rice Husk/Hull : Dedak/Dedek Smooth Rice Husk : Bekatul/Katul Rice (Cooked) : Sega/Sego Spilled Rice Grains : Upa/Upo Leftover Dry Rice : Karak Broken Rice : Menir Rice Drainage Water (After Washed) : Leri

@GaudiFanYAY 9 месяцев назад

An additional possible bonus of using the "drain and flood" method this video advocates, is that it could also act as an alternative pesticide control. Nothing too amazing, but letting the fields dry out can kill off plants that only thrive in flooded areas, and flooding the area afterwards can kill whatever plants that took root when it was dry. Plus other small pests, like bugs, could also be killed by the flood if they aren't suitable flooded areas.

@dominique-valois 9 месяцев назад

@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 Jesus will help increase rice yeild if you convert. I call upon power of the holy spirit to multiply the grains of rice in this paddy field.

@sadanikadayarathna4735 4 месяца назад

@dominique-valois😂

@NazriB 4 месяца назад

Lies again? NASCAR GrabCar Nasi Goreng

@k1j1j1j 4 месяца назад

@@dominique-valois hippie sky wizard will make your rice one bajillion times better with this one easy trick!

@tsukuyomirai5264 9 месяцев назад

Rice is so important in Nepal that it has different names in every form. Sita- a grain of cooked rice Bhat-a cooked rice Chamal-an uncooked rice Dhan-a rice within a husk Bala-a dry fully ripped paddy Even so, it is also known as gold that grows and August 1 is a Paddy Day in Nepal. A small myth/superstition to add: It is said that, if you step over rice water, your eyesight will be poor when you grow old. So my mom would never dispose ricewater in an open area.

@shishirkarki5782 9 месяцев назад

What's august 1 , I only heard about ASAR 15

@dangerouscolors 9 месяцев назад

in the tagalog language in the philippines we have similar words for different forms of rice too! palay - any stage of rice before husking/milling, whether its growing in the field or harvested bigas - husked uncooked rice kanin - rice in general/cooked rice tutong - burnt crispy rice on the bottom of the pot malata - mushy soft rice that was cooked with too much watef bahaw - leftover rice cooked yesterday (not spoiled! will probably be either reheated or turned into fried rice)

@nidhisawant4313 9 месяцев назад

Idk about other Indian languages but we have very similar words in marathi. Shita, bhaat, tandool, dhaanya, etc

@wenaldy 9 месяцев назад

Padi - grown, husked, harvested grain Gabah - Dried Husked rice Beras - grain uncooked rice Nasi - cooked rice Bubur - overcooked rice / porridge / congee Nasi Aking - Leftover rice, dried and cook again

@soumyadeep5 9 месяцев назад

We have similar names in Bangla and other Indian languages too

@soumyadeep5 9 месяцев назад

As an Indian Bengali, rice is so important food for us that we consume it in many different ways *Chaal* - Uncooked rice *Bhaat* - Cooked rice *Dhan* - Rice with the husk attached *Muri* - Puffed rice (Most staple Bengali light meal. You can mix n number of items with muri) *Chira (poha)* - Flattened rice *Khoi* - Popped rice *Murki* - Popped rice mixed in hot n sweet jaggery *Chal er gura* - Powdered new rice. *Pitha* - A variety of winter dessert made using powdered rice, milk, jaggery of khejur, coconut, etc. *Khichudi* - Rice and lentils slow cooked together *Payesh (Rabdi)* - Rice slowly cooked in milk and jaggery or sugar plus dry fruits *Panta* - Cooked rice left submerged in water overnight *Bhuna Khichudi* - A dryer version of khichudi with added dry fruits *Chal bhaja* - Fried uncooked rice *Gola* - Overcooked sticky rice *Maar* - The liquid starch of rice *Pulao* - Flavoured and spiced rice with dry fruits and nuts *Biryani* - Rice cooked with spices and meat *Atop* - A variety of scented rice *Gobindobhog* - A variety of scented sacred rice used for making prasad *Tulaipanji* - A variety of mild scented rice eaten best with meat *Basmati* - A variety of long grained scented rice *Dheki Chata (ঢেঁকি ছাঁটা)* - Brown rice, usually eaten by people who are sick *Tush/Khosa/Bhusi* - The husk of rice, used to feed cattle *Khor* - Straw or hay, used to feed cattle, & used in construction as insulator *Dhaner Seesh* - The pinnacle or sheaf of the paddy has always been traditionally used in numerous ways in our sanatani culture *Hariya/Pochani* - An alcoholic drink made from fermenting rice And the list goes on

@HAHAd2 9 месяцев назад

Professional yapper

@rodrozil6544 9 месяцев назад

You forgot about the one and only South Asian favourite, "Jaalmuri/spicy puffed rice"!!

@soumyadeep5 9 месяцев назад

@@rodrozil6544 Yes. Thank you :)

@vmvengsub3812 9 месяцев назад

So is Vietnam, and I suspect that so are countries with history of rice cultivation tbh.

@jumbojumbo6866 8 месяцев назад

dudes yapping rice

@HumbleAshe 9 месяцев назад

Ah rice, so simple yet so iconic and important as a food staple. ESPECIALLY for Asian cultures and for people in my family and among many of my friends, rice makes up so much of the various foods we eat regularly.

@nikyabodigital 9 месяцев назад

It has indeed become too much of a culture that looking at people who don't eat rice feels like an alien.

@derkaiser420 9 месяцев назад

I am actually surprised they didn't mention how rice farmers get infected by parasitic worms at an alarming rate. They then contract some pretty terrible diseases as a result. Parasitic worms kill thousands of people a year in pretty horrible ways. I wouldn't be overly concerned with the methane distribution by flooding rice fields but instead making it a breading ground for worms. We should focus on draining these fields for the health of poor farmers because worms are very easy to get rid of by simple medications but most farmers cannot afford it.

@Kall_sta 8 месяцев назад

Not just schistosomiasis etc, but also malaria in the African continent!

@waterpark49 9 месяцев назад

Rice are one of god's greatest gift to us. From one rice you can grow it to thousands of rice. Rice can be stored for a long time without preservative. You can cook and eat it easily without many process like wheat. It can blend it to any other dish. If you turn it to powder, it can be use to make many delicious cake and so on.. rice is indeed bringing life.

@windygrass9807 9 месяцев назад

So true! I dont know any better way to put it than this.

@Phlegethon 5 месяцев назад

The people who discovered rice don’t believe in god

@boringbilal 9 месяцев назад

It's amazing how this staple has been so integral to many culture cuisines for millenia!

@Odia_bhaina 9 месяцев назад

We plant rice during the monsoon rains. So mostly doesn't need irrigation and i think it actually helps prevent flooding by storing so much water in the fields.

@gorilladisco9108 8 месяцев назад

The video didn't explain "why is rice so popular?".

@バンシアの 6 месяцев назад

Flooding rice field is make able to grow without fertilizer, which means more rice, more population, so Many people make rice if they can.

@gemmeldrakes2758 6 месяцев назад

The simple reason is the yield. 1 cup of dry rice can become up to 4 cups of cooked rice, depending on the type. No other staple crop does that. A pound of wheat flour does not quadruple in volume when you make bread from it, neither does a cup of cornmeal become 4 cups of cooked corn meal when you cook it. It takes less rice to feed many more people.

@gorilladisco9108 6 месяцев назад

@@gemmeldrakes2758 But popcorn can double that. 😅... one spoonful of corn can become 4 cup of popcorn. 🤔 don't kill me, sensei 😰

@gemmeldrakes2758 6 месяцев назад

@@gorilladisco9108 I forgot about popcorn. But perhaps it is not as versatile? You can serve a lot of different entrees with rice.

@gorilladisco9108 6 месяцев назад

@@gemmeldrakes2758 I think so too. The expansion of popcorn was filled with air, while rice was filled with water. That gives rice more filling sense than popcorn.

@erinboateng5961 8 месяцев назад

I'm from Ghana and I love rice. We use it to make many different dishes but my favorite is Jollof Rice.

@sagirahmed1601 9 месяцев назад

As an Assamese, rice is what I eat for my breakfast, morning snacks, lunch, evening snacks and dinner. Sweets made during festivals and special occasions, called pitha are also made of rice and rice flour, called pitha-guri (pitha powder). Rice is so centric here that the expression "bhat khala?" (Have you eaten rice?) is often used in the place of "what's up" or "how are you?". In Assam there are museums displaying hundreds of native varieties of rice from Assam. Some of the popular varieties include: *Joha* - The popular fragrance rice that is also used to make Assamese payox/pah (rice pudding), pulao etc. At my home, we make biryani with joha more often than with basmati lol (basmati is a newly introduced imported variety here). *Bora* - The beloved sticky rice that's used to make all the Assamese sweet dishes. It's the rice that's pounded to make pithaguri. We can make quick payox also with it. *Boka/Kumol saul* - The magic rice Others include ahu, aijong, bao, boro, lahi and many more. There are many terms we use to refer to different forms of rice, such as: Dhan - paddy, unhusked rice Kothia - rice sapling Saul - husked but uncooked rice Bhat - cooked rice Sira - flattered rice Muri - puffed rice Akhoi - popped rice Xandoh - coarse powder of parched rice Hurum - another type of puffed rice Pithaguri - rice flour, used to make Pithas (Assamese cakes), some larus (ladoos). It's also often added in curries to make it thicker. Payox/Pah - rice pudding Põita bhat - rice soaked in water overnight, then served with various dishes. Summer food Pulao - rice cooked with meat or vegetables Xaz - rice beer Mar - liquid starch of rice Khud saul - broken pieces of rice Tuh - rice husk powder used to feed animals

@FajriSuryaPutra 8 месяцев назад

Almost all Asians can't live without rice. You can eat anything from burgers to donuts, but eventually it feels strange not to eat rice for a day. So we still eat a bowl of rice at least twice a day even though it's just a small amount.

@papashield3 5 месяцев назад

Sounds like addiction

@amanpathak8763 9 месяцев назад

Not just that, the way rice is cooked also varies a lot. In India (I'm Indian), the most go to way to cook rice is using a pressure cooker. In other Asian countries, rice cooker is used heavily. In the west, rice is cooked in an open vessel. Rice is love. Great video, very informative.

@TheAlchemist1089 9 месяцев назад

A pressure cooker is a new invention. Just cook it in a pot that's better. Even for khichdi or pulav it's better

@nidhisawant4313 9 месяцев назад

Everyone uses cooker today. We use pressure cooker. In east, southeast as well as west, they use electric cooker. Its a new phenomenon. Before that everyone used pots and open vessels. I still prefer using open vessels over cooker myself.

@wrkris0905 9 месяцев назад

As a South Korean, that bibimbap thumbnail attracted me a little too much... that I actually didn't know the title until I started writing this comment😅

@paleoph6168 9 месяцев назад

A TED-Ed video on *rice* by a person whose name is *Beans.* Yep, checks out.

@deadsoulvamp 9 месяцев назад

My grandfather had large rice fields in westen Nepal.. they used to alternate wetting the rice fields. Filling the fields with water, let it dry it out... and then refilling the fields again. And it is still being done that way, but not because of methane problem..

@SkyGuardianHelmet 9 месяцев назад

I had thought everyone ate rice as a main dish when I was small. Then I realised that it was only in asia. In India bread was something sick people eat. And noodles was fast food. Chapati/Roti was made sometimes in my home but it wasn't like a daily food. Honestly I've seen paddy fields flooded full of muddy water, never thought about the environmental impact it has. I didn't even know why they flooded it. I visited my father's village and always hated walking in the thin wooden planks😅

@RoyMatzem 9 месяцев назад

In Brazil rice and beans in the main food for everyone

@ai_rg 9 месяцев назад

There are 2 types of rice varieties, flooded land rice and dry land rice. Flooded land rice variety needs lot of water during it cultivation, when the dry land rice is more resistant to drought than flooded land rice

@bletwort2920 5 месяцев назад

You must be South Indian. In Hindi, roti means bread. Rozi-roti literally "daily bread" means livelihood. Bread is more common than rice. Even Maharashtra eats more wheat than rice.

@SkyGuardianHelmet 5 месяцев назад

@@bletwort2920 yes rice is used everywhere here. Daily rice with milk or curd, sweets made from rice, idli and dosa too. And also during functions like children's birthdays or marriages where they throw rice at them. But it's getting costly nowadays so more chapatis now😅

@spacetime-cc9eh Месяц назад

@@bletwort2920 In China, southerners also like to eat rice more, while northerners like to eat pasta more.

@VCT3333 9 месяцев назад

Proving once again that Rice and Beans is the ideal combination to provide nutritious meals!! Also, for all the different varieties of rice, there's only 2 species that are the progenitors: Short Grain (Oryza Sativa) and Long Grain (Oryza Indica). Short grain exudes starch when cooked so has more stickiness needed for Risottos and Paellas etc., and Long grain is better for making Pilafs and Biryanis where you want the cooked grains to remain separate and not get lumpy.

@headlessspaceman5681 9 месяцев назад

In Louisiana they have figured out a way to raise and harvest crawdads in the rice fields while they are flooded. I don't know what kind of ecological impact this has but it seems brilliant to be producing a grain and a protein in the same place at the same time.

@angelheart1701 9 месяцев назад

In various asian countries, a similar practice exists where they raise koi fish in rice patties.

@morrismonet3554 9 месяцев назад

Crawfish Etouffee and rice. Perfect.

@curtisthomas2670 5 месяцев назад

In Trinidad and Tobago it was cascadura, a type of catfish that can even survive in mud alone

@BRZandaz 8 месяцев назад

As a semi southerner (USA) we definitely have rice with a lot of meals.. my favorite being rice with chicken or hamburger steak and gravy.. Rice , tomatoes and okra is legit too 😋

@missMcMartin 9 месяцев назад

“Why rice is popular?” Turned into a lecture on its causing global warming 😖

@captlove8788 4 месяца назад

Yeah the script is quite literally bad mouth rice for half its content. Coming from someone who probably hardly ever eat any rice their whole life, except a few times in Mexican restaurant.

@pkuvincentsu Месяц назад

Yeah, it doesn't feel right. The global warming issue needs to be talked about, but the bait and switch of this video feels very... racially charged.

@nathalia5743 9 месяцев назад

We usually eat rice and beans everyday here in Brazil. We just can't get enough! 🍚❤

@enacrt 9 месяцев назад

Sempre tem um BR 😂😂🇧🇷🇧🇷 tamo junto igual arroz e feijão

@nathalia5743 9 месяцев назад

@@enacrt KKKKKKKKKK união do prato feito 💪🇧🇷

@YoungGandalf2325 9 месяцев назад

You know a video is going to be good when it starts with a Mitch Hedberg quote.

@September2004 8 месяцев назад

0:02 That Mitch Hedberg line is great.

@MapleRose9 8 месяцев назад

I learned so much about growing (and harvesting) rice from the game Sakuna of Rice and Ruin

@geeksdo1tbetter 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the rec!

@Dheeraj5373 9 месяцев назад

In 1961, the total world production was 216 million tonnes. But world rice production in 2023 was 523.9 million tonnes. So you can easily visualise how important food rice is .😊

@Tomer_Zaitsev 9 месяцев назад

The population grew around 2.5 times in those years. So did the rice production. No surprise here

@Dheeraj5373 9 месяцев назад

@@Tomer_Zaitsev hit hard

@Viewer-zs6xj 9 месяцев назад

The word for eating food 吃饭 , is literally directly translated to ‘eat rice’ in chinese

@alarcon99 9 месяцев назад

Never knew rice was farmed in South America. Thanks!

@toolbaggers 9 месяцев назад

Rice is farmed on every continent except for Antarctica. Some rice has probably even been grown in a lab experiment in Antarctica.

@curtisthomas2670 5 месяцев назад

Talking about ancient times

@parthoghosh4135 9 месяцев назад

I am an Indian Hindu and was not expecting to hear the word "annaprasan" .. great

@BUTTERCUPJones 9 месяцев назад

as a pacific islander, rice is life.

@HaluhalongPuna 9 месяцев назад

rice is also death if you eat too much (diabetes)

@mechanikalbull5626 9 месяцев назад

Where does your rice grow? There's literally small countries like Tuvalu soaked underwater

@jumbojumbo6866 8 месяцев назад

@@mechanikalbull5626 they dont they just import rice because their land will be susceptible to erosion or waves from the sea but also their lands are small to even grow rice

@TaLeng2023 9 месяцев назад

Alternate wetting can work as a deterrent against the invasive golden snail if everyone sync their flooding cycles. The snails lay their eggs above the waterline coz it can get damaged by water. Farmers can have the water level low while the snails are breeding and then raise it once the snails are done laying eggs.

@joshy1234_5 21 день назад

here in the philippines we eat rice everyday morning, lunch, meryenda(3pm snacks), evening, midnight snacks, we cant live without rice

@renatoafonsomaiacarneiro950 9 месяцев назад

Here in Brazil, a meal without rice is no meal at all! Rice, beans, meat and salad is our standard lunch 😅

@TheTimeweaver 3 месяца назад

Unfortunately, the title is misleading. This video is not really about why rice is popular but how rice contributes to green house gas emissions.

@Dheeraj5373 9 месяцев назад

Rice cultivation has a rich history dating back thousands of years. Originating in Asia, rice cultivation began in China around 5000 BCE and later spread to other parts of Asia, including India and Southeast Asia. It played a crucial role in the development of ancient civilizations, such as the Indus Valley and Chinese cultures. Rice cultivation techniques spread to the Middle East, Africa, and Europe over time. In the Middle Ages, the Moors introduced rice to Spain, and from there, it spread to Italy. European colonial powers further contributed to the global dissemination of rice, bringing it to the Americas during the Age of Exploration. In the modern era, rice has become a staple food worldwide, with various varieties adapted to different climates. It plays a vital role in the economies and diets of many countries, particularly in Asia, where it remains a dietary staple for billions of people.

@jigsaw2253 9 месяцев назад

Thank you chatgpt

@Dheeraj5373 9 месяцев назад

@@jigsaw2253 😑

@GoyFromFinland 9 месяцев назад

@@Dheeraj5373 Sorry chatgpt

@jamescorvus6709 9 месяцев назад

Rice planting didn't spread into West Africa, they developed it INDEPENDENTLY. As it was said in the video. They had another rice species in West Africa that the Mande Peoples and other Niger Congo speakers developed on their own.

@Dheeraj5373 9 месяцев назад

@@jamescorvus6709 Africans have rich history and their own customs and culture. They definitely grow different types of rich but nowadays Asian and Indian rich are more popular 😏

@StanAllKpopGroups13 9 месяцев назад

Paella really is a culinary masterpiece

@pdls4 9 месяцев назад

yes but not the paella shown in this video 😭

@ashitkotian2396 9 месяцев назад

Rice is not just a food, its like a symbol of life and a symbol of culture often used in rituals.

@shahinchoudhury8256 9 месяцев назад

1:55, like in Japan, in Bengali culture "bhat khawa" also means meal, (bhat is cooked rice, khawa is 'to eat') "bhat khaitm" ( want to eat cooked rice) means "i am hungry"

@KrasnyPetrograd 9 месяцев назад

Also in Thai, ข้าว (rice) can also means meal.

@0ddoneout324 5 месяцев назад

Thats also in assamese

@月-s6w 9 месяцев назад

I live in Japan.There’s "mochi ",which make from rice. It is eaten in New Year. I would like you to eat it!

@chobies5383 9 месяцев назад

I live in the United States and most stores have mochi, it might be an Americanized version though.

@inuhundchien6041 9 месяцев назад

Huh I don't know about other countries but Im pretty sure in mine the rice paddy is flooded by rain so we don't actually 'use' water we just get what's there. Also the field will be let dry when it's not rainy season. Flooded field is also a good place to put in fish and shrimps.

@woofy8373 15 дней назад

Searching this because growing up i was heavenly surprised that people in some countries don't usually eat rice every meal

@kimandre336 9 месяцев назад

The Chinese character 飯 originally meant cooked grain as opposed to wheat or millet-based noodles or flatbread-like foodstuff. It became cooked rice much later.

@thaisgregorio2734 8 месяцев назад

I am Brazilian and I love rice. I feel like my meals are incomplete without it

@jonathankater7491 9 месяцев назад

As a University student, I’m humbled to know the roots of the food that has been there for me😂😂

@interferenzbrille_2542 9 месяцев назад

"Why is rice so popular and how can we reduce its carbondioxide emissions" is the real content ;) Nice!

@Cdroh 9 месяцев назад

Every video on this channel seems to go this way, and their totally clueless there’s not a hope the way rice is cultivated will change go to these countries and you’ll see how poor rice farmers are they could not care less about greenhouse emissions

@toolbaggers 9 месяцев назад

@@CdrohLearn when to use "they're."

@timmy-wj2hc 9 месяцев назад

The Global South should sue US and Europeans for contaminating the world.m, and shoould demand reparations.

@kirbya9545 9 месяцев назад

@@toolbaggersbro who cares 😭

@Carbon-fan Месяц назад

@@Cdroh They will soon care about carbon emissions.

@manahelh.6104 8 месяцев назад

Without even watching the video is simple coming from an Afghan person because it’s Delicious YUMMY god sent

@vytuong4016 24 дня назад

My family also keeps the tradition of growing rice for many generations.

@sapphyrus 8 месяцев назад

Rice indeed complements so many different food types, both plant and meat. I prefer it as my carbohydrate intake compared to wheat in meals.

@sanidhyatiwari7246 9 месяцев назад

Love your work ted ed Always grateful to you❤❤❤

@haze300 9 месяцев назад

It's important to us as a Filipino. and we have different terms for it: Palay - Unmilled rice Bigas - milled rice Kanin - cooked rice, rice in general Bahaw - cooked rice typically a leftover rice from previous dinner Sinangag - fried rice Lugaw - Rice porridge Malagkit - glutinous rice, typically used for "kakanin" or rice cake and desserts. Kakanin - a rice cake with different varieties. Tutong - burned or overcooked rice Mumo - a pieces of rice that was left on plate or table Sinaing - a rice that is currently on cooking process Ampaw - puffed rice and many more in different regions. That's how we love rice, unfortunately, white rice is really popular and it's unhealthy if consumed too much.

@guzal6116 7 месяцев назад

Hi I am from Uzbekistand and every year we bring up rice and it is not as easy as you think to harvest it 'cause it depends lots of energy and action❤🎉

@palakbatra4932 9 месяцев назад

Love the background music

@almalyncabansag4442 7 месяцев назад

In the Philippines we had a vierity of rice planted on the mountain not paddies but directly at a dry slightly moist soil called Hasik. Saddly it is not grown in our village anymore since the introduction of different kinds of rice seeds. Only less than 5 farmers grow it in our province

@perpetualbystander4516 9 месяцев назад

"But going against the grain could be just what we need" Nice one. 😄👍

@echognomecal6742 9 месяцев назад

Another example of rice & Beans going well together.

@CirculatedFragrance 9 месяцев назад

Every food production hurt the environment one way or the other however, its important to know that we shouldnt go against the farmers but we should blame corporates

@morrismonet3554 9 месяцев назад

Eat what you like and ignore the Climate Nazis.

@Wired4Life2 9 месяцев назад

@@morrismonet3554 Especially those with private jets and McMansions, resulting in them contributing a larger carbon footprint that the vast majority of us peasants. :b

@TaLeng2023 9 месяцев назад

@@Wired4Life2yeah like Taylor Swift lecturing us peasants while she emit more than we emit a year whenever she decided to visit her bf

@squalltheonly 9 месяцев назад

Because it tastes so goooood. I like to put shredded mozzarella cheese on it after it finishes cooking, mix it, and leave it on the rice cooker on the warm setting for a few minutes

@sadiajavaiddd 9 месяцев назад

In Kashmiri too, "batt" means both rice and meal. You could eat an entire large pizza, 10 sandwitches and a kg of fruit, but unless you eat rice, its not considered a meal.

@raunakrai_10 9 месяцев назад

the indian annaprashan thing uses rice to make this sweet rice and milk dish called kheer.

@afan2326 9 месяцев назад

Such a nice animation bit in 1:33 with the European settlers coming in

@秋声-s4e 9 месяцев назад

It’s hard to imagine how my grandparents used to cook rice in a pot. It seems they also steam rice? I can only use a rice cooker!

9 месяцев назад

Here in Colombia we say "a lunch without rice is not lunch" and I like that we share the rice love with the asians because rice is pretty delicious

@TaLeng2023 9 месяцев назад

What do Columbians eat as staple prior to the Spanish arrival?

@mikemcconeghy4658 5 месяцев назад

I spent a year in Fukuyama, Japan. It rained continuously in the month of June. I remember thinking that would be good for the rice.

@davronpulatov1789 8 месяцев назад

Thank you I did not know about it , but now I know some very interesting information...

@Willchannel90 4 месяца назад

Many chefs from Asia applauded these.

@tomkoelmans4859 9 месяцев назад

Saying methanogens are the only bacteria known to produce methane is saying like all the vegetarians are the only humans known not to eat meat...

@MoroccanCanadianFromToronto 9 месяцев назад

Rice was not known in my home country Morocco🇲🇦, it was introduced in the 40s. Bread is the most popular food 🥯

@bonbonbonbons 9 месяцев назад

Ironically instant ramen was invented because of a reversed situation in postwar Japan. When US gave wheat to Japan to make bread one guy figured out that bread was not a common thing in Japan and ramen noodles were more popular, he set out to create ramen instead. He ended up creating instant ramen by flashfreezing ramen dough.

@lucianoosorio5942 9 месяцев назад

“Ok thanks to your new friend Ping, you spend tonight picking up every single grain of rice and tomorrow the real work begins.” Shang

@yusufrosyid3561 9 месяцев назад

I don't know that planting the rice have a huge impact for environment. Thanks for the great insight😎👌

@CrossTheGoat 9 месяцев назад

I'm from south east Asia, we don't see rice as a popular food we got so used to it that we don't see it as a food anymore instead we see it as a requirement when we eat food, for instance when you go to school you need a bag to carry your books and pen its a requirement but optional you can still carry your books and pens without the bag but its also inconvinient and uncomfortable, same to rice. When we asians eat, rice is required but also optional since we can still eat without rice but for us it is inconvinient and uncomfortable to eat without it. Unlike western diet where they can eat anything like for example they could just eat chicken wings from mcdonald and go to statbucks then call it a lunch, but for us breakfast, lunch, and dinner always requires rice. That's why people here know how to cook dishes, unlike americans who don't, the only thing they know to cook are fried chicken, smoked steak, roasted turkey.

@Electrobuzz17 9 месяцев назад

Ah you spoke my mind. I now live in a different city for work and try to adapt to sandwich burgers meals for convience but i never fill full unless i eat rice be it ant dish biryani, fried rice ,steamed. When i look back on my childhood i realise i have been eating rice 3 times a day at home😂. Love from india

@RadenYohanesGunawan 9 месяцев назад

I love rice! Literally the staple food for us Indonesians. 🍱

@roryasrorri701 9 месяцев назад

Sadly, alternate wetting & drying needs more herbicide or otherwise you'll have to battle the weeds up until harvest time 😢 (speaking from the little experience i have of farming rice since my childhood)

@ric.card.o 9 месяцев назад

Rice yealds are higher in irrigated fields more than paddy fields. Water in paddy fields is mostly used for temperature control.

@lias934 9 месяцев назад

Millennials depend on rice as their staple diet, and as population surge, we cannot control its production rather opt for a sustainable method. But what we can *control* is Human-induced GHG which was shown vividly in the video by those- _Vehicular exhausts steering through the fields_ Thanks for the info. ;))❤⚡

@flyby3079 3 месяца назад

As someone with Kerala roots, we eat rice wuite a bit with biriyani, goes well as with curries, and also we have a rice pudding called paysam. There’s even a soecies if of ruce not mentioned in the video but is healthier & has sone if the hisk on the grain when you boil it. Its supposed to be healthier for diabetes

@JohnAranita 9 месяцев назад

I have brown and white rice with dinner because I got served that combination as a student @ Leilehua High School in the '80s.

@doggonemess1 9 месяцев назад

0:16 I had to listen to this sentence again. "This beloved CROP...". XD

@Elefant5759 9 месяцев назад

Rice isn’t new but its quality is still needed.

@psychoinferno4480 9 месяцев назад

First time hearing Rice field emit methane, had to do extra research because rice is a staple in the Philippines so we basically have a lot of rice field

@ShirAh1414 9 месяцев назад

In Afghanistan we make Qabuli with rice which contains yellow carrots ,currants and meat.

@billie-J 9 месяцев назад

here in the Philippines there is a facility called International Rice Research Institute many of our asian neighbors studied and research different kinds of ways for a rice to grow and develop different variants of rice.

@duhxdars8667 9 месяцев назад

And yet, the Philippines is one of the biggest importers of rice in the world, even becoming the top rice importer in 2023. Seeing the demand for rice worldwide is actually saddening as a Filipino. We could have taken advantage of this demand and competed with other countries as a supplier, but how can we do this when we can't even produce enough grains for our countrymen?

@billie-J 9 месяцев назад

@@duhxdars8667 i met an indian national in Saudi and he said he once studied in IRRI and spoke proud if what he did. he told me he learned a lot. And most of our kababayan back then didn't even know what IRRI stands for 😢

@srilakshmidevanathan8334 9 месяцев назад

@@billie-J we learn about the IRRI In science especially in terms of food production in India.

@burudugunstuytugudunstuy 9 месяцев назад

as a filipino, you can eat rice with rice in it as a meal with dessert like a combination of sinangag, arroz caldo and bibingka.

@HoangDung-sv8tt 3 месяца назад

A relative of the same weedy grass was also domesticated in Africa 1:22 around 3,000 years ago. 1:24 Today, its growth is mostly limited to West Africa. 1:28 South American growers also domesticated rice around 4,000 years ago, 1:32 though the crop was lost after the arrival of Europeans.

@hansduran9462 9 месяцев назад

From far, i thought the video was about EGG based on the thumbnail art. Could've been simple just putting a rice bowl to efficiently communicate it visually. But the video is good, always great honestly. Thanks TedEd ❤

@Aximili00 6 месяцев назад

what's the cost of doing the alternative drying and flooding and how does it impact on the profit margin for farmers/growers?

@paijobejo4849 4 месяца назад

Flooding and drying field greatly increase harvest weight, making the seed bigger, 1 bag of all season flooded usually around 40kgs but drying and flooding crop increase the weight to 50+ kgs, not like much but the rice is really tastier,

@blondjon 9 месяцев назад

This video was fascinating! Loved it.

@strawberrydome 8 месяцев назад

Genuine question, why use rice growers, not rice farmer?

@SteveJian 9 месяцев назад

Rice plays an integral part in the food culture of Asian countries; therefore, as a Taiwanese, I'm really surprised to know that rice growing can cause global warming, which is usually associated with animal farming, industrial development, and heavy traffic.

@davidtogi5878 9 месяцев назад

Well tbh feeding more than half of the world population with just 12% methane is a big positive than the negative

@SteveJian 9 месяцев назад

@@davidtogi5878 While you probably made a good point, some people argue that Asians typically have a lean figure because our diet is tipped badly toward the favor of rice.

@davidtogi5878 9 месяцев назад

@@SteveJian a bit lean or even plump were never a bad thing anyway. As long as it doesn't goes underweight nor overweight. 😉

@oletramekaf5603 8 месяцев назад

Which kind of rice is healthier, basmati or jasmine? I tried to research in this, but can only find contradictory answers.

@dedinacid458 9 месяцев назад

As a Brazilian, I eat rice every day, I love it

@JoeyTurner-f4f 8 месяцев назад

So much of the western diet revolves around wheat, and as someone with a gluten allergy, I'm so thankful rice is both readily available at every grocery store and can be made into a wide variety of dishes.

@gorilladisco9108 8 месяцев назад

According to wikipedia, corn actually have a bigger production globally than rice, although it didn't specify how much is consumed by human and how much is used to produce ethanol.