Abstract:
Rice is the major staple food of almost half of the world’s population. It has significant nutrition
and health implications. Being a major energy contributor to the body of rice consuming
population, there is a huge increasing concern on rice worldwide. Sri Lankan traditional rice
varieties have scientifically proven high nutritional values, low glycemic indices with
antidiabetic effect, anticancer potency against human lung cancer cells, antiglycation and
antiamylase effects. This review gathers studies mainly on health benefits and bioactivities of Sri
Lankan traditional rice varieties and provides a critical overview of the current states of the
consumption and benefits of rice
