Due to global outbreak of rice false smut disease, ustiloxin A (UA) was detected in rice. However, accurate methods for monitoring UA in human body fluids were lacking. In this context, a UPLC-MS/MS method based on two-step SPE was constructed for measuring UA in urine. The limits of UA...

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is an autoimmune disease caused by abnormal regulation of blood sugar, with type 2 DM representing 90 - 95% of total DM incidence. One of the preventive measures to improve blood sugar control is the regulation of eating patterns. The purposes of the present work were...

Purpose: To study the effect of feeding rice Diangu No.2 feed rich in resistant starch on the blood glucose and lipid metabolism in rats. Methods: Male type II diabetic GK rats and Wistar rats at 12 months of age were used as test subjects, and the test group (fed with rice Diangu No.2 rat chow),...

BACKGROUND: Brown rice contains nutrients that significantly reduce the incidence of obesity. This study aimed to investigate the effect of brown rice as a functional food on the reduction of obesity incidence through the pathways of gut microbiota dysbiosis. METHODS: In this study, we used white...

The threat to human health from cold stimulation is increasing due to the frequent occurrence of temperature extremes. It is a challenge for people to resist the negative effects of prolonged cold stimulation on the heart. In this study, we created prolonged cold stimulation pig models to...

Due to naturally high Ni or soil Ni contamination, high Ni concentrations are reported in rice, raising a need to reduce rice Ni exposure risk. Here, reduction in rice Ni concentration and Ni oral bioavailability with rice Fe biofortification and dietary Fe supplementation was assessed using rice...

Amylosucrase can increase the amount of resistant starch (RS) in starch by transferring glucose from sucrose to amylopectin. Here, rice starch was modified using amylosucrase from Deinococcus geothermalis (DgAS). DgAS-modified rice starch (DMRS) increased the side-chain length of amylopectin and...

The seedlings of purple leafed rice (SPLR) are characterized by high contents of anthocyanins and various polyphenols, whose total anthocyanin content can reach 15.16 mg g^-1, indicating that SPLR may have many bioactivities. Therefore, in order to evaluate the anti-obesity potential value of SPLR,...

Brown rice consumption is known to have numerous therapeutic benefits. This study aimed to examine the bioactive components of black-pigmented (BRW) and non-pigmented (TK9W) brown rice and their comparative effects on hypolipidemic activity in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced hamsters. The results...

Objective: To evaluate the safety of β-glucan biofortified rice through a 28-day oral toxicity test. Methods: Weaned SD rats were randomly divided into a control group and low, medium and high dose groups (2.5, 5.0 and 10.0 g/kg BW), 22 in each group, half male and half female. After oral gavage...