Strictly speaking, purple rice and black rice are two kinds of rice. Although they all belong to glutinous rice, their nutritional components and functions are different. It's just that some dealers in the market don't pay attention to segmentation when selling, and equate purple rice with black rice and sell it together as black rice.

Black rice has the functions of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, invigorating spleen and warming liver, enriching blood and benefiting qi, improving intelligence and strengthening brain, enhancing metabolism, improving eyesight and promoting blood circulation, treating juvenile gray hair and nourishing deficiency of pregnant women and parturients. It has therapeutic effect on anemia, hypertension, neurasthenia, chronic nephritis and other diseases. Trace elements such as vitamin B 1 (twice that of ordinary rice), B2, B6, B 12, iron (seven times that of ordinary rice), calcium, phosphorus, selenium, magnesium, copper and zinc are all higher than those of ordinary rice.

Purple rice is a kind of rice, named after the slender purple rice grains. There are two kinds of purple rice: inner ultraviolet white, not waxy, and inner and outer purple. Purple rice is fragrant, oily and soft. Purple rice has high nutritional value and medicinal value, and has many functions such as enriching blood, invigorating spleen, regulating middle energizer and treating neurasthenia. Purple rice is more precious because of its various advantages and low yield.

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