Rice Bran is the newest and greatest food source to be made available for human consumption in modern history. Rice Bran has the potential to do so many good things for so many people. The fact that it is very nutritious and will be integrated into many foods is great in and of itself, but the fact that this food source is so readily available, it can be used to feed the starving around the world thanks to some pioneering scientists and hard work. Rice and Shine is an example of a new product made with Rice Bran.

The part of the rice kernel that is removed in the milling process is where we get the rice bran. While its high quality nutritional value is well known, it was deemed unusable by the food and drug administration. This was because the rice bran breaks down or goes bad very quickly. subsequently, 16 millions tons of Rice Bran was either turned into the soil, burned or discarded. It was the worlds largest unused food source. Until now.

Rice bran nutrition has been revealed to help with chronic degenerative diseases. Fibro myalgia, heart disease, cancer, diabetes and arthritis. Packed with nutritive value, there are 120 different anti-oxidants which prevent free radicals that can damage every organ in the body. Rice bran is unique, because it has all the various components that you find individually in the health food store, but all wrapped up in a single food source. It has all the Vitamin B, an incredible complex of Vitamin E and in a form that is very bio available to the human system. A whole food. There are trace minerals and other co-factors called synergist and catalysts that enable the body to utilize these nutrients more readily them processed, isolated vitamin supplements.

Patty McPeak and her team invented the process and equipment that deactivates the enzyme responsible for making the rice bran go bad. This process takes place right after the rice bran is stripped from the brown rice kernel in the milling process. As a result, Rice bran now has a shelf life of 2 to 3 years. This makes it possible to include rice bran into almost anything we eat.

In the first application, Patty McPeak has developed Rice n Shine. A delicious Nutritious, heart happy meal replacement shake. It comes in 2 flavors. Chocolate and Vanilla. Take a glass or a shaker and add water, 2 scoops of Rice and Shine powder, and some ice. Shake it up and you have a wonderfully nutritious milk shake. If you are busy, as many of us are these days, sometimes we do not have the time to prepare the 3 course meals every day for our families and we wind up eating junk food that is just not very nutritious. A rice and Shine milk shake in the morning is the perfect full meal replacement that will leave you feeling healthy and fulfilled.

. There are many products that will be coming out in the near future from food industries wanting to take advantage of this great new food source. These are just the first implementations for the use of rice bran, but as you can see, the future for this food source and what it can do for man kind is very promising.