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The seeds of the rice plant are milled to remove the chaff (the outer husks of the grain). Continued milling can remove the rest of the husk, called the "bran," and the plant embryo, or "germ," to create white rice. White rice keeps longer, but it lacks important nutrients. In the nineteenth century, people who ate mostly white rice developed a disease called beriberi, which was later discovered to be caused by a deficiency in thiamine (Vitamin B1). The vitamin is removed, along with many other nutrients, when the germ is removed. That's one reason that brown rice is more nutritious than white rice.

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