TRADITIONAL RICE VARIETIES OF TAMILNADU AND ITS HEALTH BENIFITS
Tamilnadu
is famous for its rich cultural heritage from time immemorial. Ancient
forefathers of ours gave immense importance to arts, culture, science, food and
health. In particular tamil farmers are traditionally rich in their agriculture
knowledge, organic farming and cropping techniques. But from the colonial era
ancient tamil traditional treasures had slowly lost only by one and the most
important of them all is that we slowly forget our traditional food varities.In
this article i made a small attempt in creating awareness of the traditional
rice varities of tamilnadu and its rich
nutritious and health significance.In totally there were more than 10000
varities of rice in ancient tamilnadu. But as of now only 63 of the traditional
varities of rice are in use and only 19 of them are prominent among the
farmers.We can look into the insights on some of the most important traditional
rice varieties one by one.
1.KAATUYAANAM RICE
ü The grain in the field grows more than 7 foot
tall and even an elephant can disappear amidst the crop.
ü It controls Diabetes, improves over all health
of children, boosts immunity and protects against skin problems.
ü It improves sexual vigour, acts as a
cardiotonic.
ü Best
suited for marshy soils
2.KAVUNI RICE
Black kavuni rice
ü Consumed
by tamil kings
ü This rice is in existence from Chola period.
ü Anticancer,
improves secretion of insulin
ü Excretes
wastes from our body acting as a natural
detoxifying agent
ü The South Indian Chettinad community, in the
ancient days, widely used this Karuppu Kavuni Arisi. Even today, there is no royal family Chettinad wedding
without a dessert with Kavuni Arisi
ü Kavuni Rice is found to be the richest source
of anthocyanin
ü kavuni rice also has 18 amino acids present in
it.
Sivappu
kavuni rice
ü Good
for bones
ü
Improves immunity
3.ARUVATHAAM KURUVAI
RICE
ü Increases
sexual stamina
ü Acts
as Cardiotonic
ü Stimulates
growth
ü Improves
good cholesterol
ü Short
term crop cultivated in sixty days
4.KARUNKURUVAI RICE
ü It has a KAYAKALPAM property which protects our
body. siddhars use this rice variety to prepare medicines.
ü It gives enormous strength to bones
ü It boosts our body’s immune system
ü It improves sexual vigour
5.MAAPILLAI SAMBA RICE
ü It
prevents Ulcer
ü Acts
as Neurotonic
ü It improves sexual vigour
ü It
is very good for bridegroom who is going to get married
ü It strengthens
immune system
ü Increase Haemoglobin content.
ü Increase brain strength
ü Reduces body heat
ü Good for diabetics persons
ü Fibrous in nature
ü Fights against cancer
6.POONGAAR
RICE
ü It
is very good for womens health and in particular for pregnant women.
ü It
strengthens the pelvis bone
ü It
will ease for normal delivery
ü Good
source for breast milk secretion
7.
SIGAPPU KUDAVAAZHAI RICE
ü Good
for intestine
ü Good
for diabetes
ü Good
for constipation
8.KULLAKAAR
RICE
ü Good
for treating Obesity
ü Reduce
BMI(Body Mass Index)
ü Acts
as a cardiotonic
ü Gives
enormous strength to body
ü It possesses antioxidant properties, and has
higher zinc and iron content than white rice.
9.GARUDAN
SAMBA RICE
ü Cleans
the intestine
ü Improves
blood circulation and blood purification
ü Garudan Samba, an important Traditional variety
of Tamil Nadu was investigated for its phytochemical screening and GCMS study.
The brown rice was extracted using ethanol. The results obtained after GCMS
studies were confirmed by spectral analysis. The analysis of the ethanol
extract showed the presence of n-Hexadecanoic acid, 9,12- Octadecadienoic acid
(Z,Z)-, and Oleic acid, as major constituents of the total compounds (76.33%),
which have the capacity to prevent many health related disorders. It also
contained the medicinally important compounds like Caryophyllene, Ethyl Oleate,
Squalene, γ-Tocopherol, Lup-20(29)-en-3-ol, acetate, (3β)-, and phyto sterols
like Campesterol, Stigmasterol and β-Sitosterol. Hence, Garudan samba may be
considered as one of the important Traditional variety with high level of
medicinally important phytoconstituents.
10.KARUTHAKKAR
RICE
ü Used
to treat piles
ü Prevents
constipation
11.KULIYADICHAAN
RICE
ü Good source of breast milk secretion
ü Can
grow in saline soils and withstand drought condition.
12.ILLUPAIPOO
SAMBA RICE
ü Prevents
paralysis
ü Treat
rheumatism,arthritis
ü Good
for diabetes
13.VAALAAN
SAMBA RICE
ü It
is very good for womens health and in particular for pregnant women.
ü It
strengthens the pelvis bone
ü It
will ease for normal delivery
Super... Thank you
ReplyDeleteCan you please share the tamil name's for these rice varieties
ReplyDeleteADT 36, IR 50, IR 64, IR 36, MDU 3, CO 47, ASD 16, ASD 17, ADT 37, TPS 2, ADT 39, ASD 18, MDU 4, PMK 2, ADT 42, MDU 5, ASD 20, ADT 43, TKM 11, ADT (RH)1, ADT (R) 45, TKM (R) 12, TRY (R) 2, PMK (R) 3, ADT (R) 47, ADT (R) 48.
These are hybrids and not traditional rice.
DeleteI am residing one village called ananjanur near Trichy. Here there is new variety of ponni rice called Akshaya ponni, I need more information about this variety.
ReplyDeleteIn local market the traders says this is new variety and not fast moving
Any ponni ist a traditional rice? Infact it's not even a hybrid of a native rice. Read this ponni from wikipedia
DeleteAkshaya ponni has very good market in Madurai.....it's a fast moving variety only
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