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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a rice with a huge germ having high nutritive to be effectively utilized and a food such as a retort food and a sweet food suitable for the modern age valuing the health to be produced by efficiently improving the quality of the rice with the huge germ by subjecting the rice with the huge germ to germination treatment. SOLUTION: A rice with a huge germ having >=3 wt.% germ proportion, such as a brown rice of 'Chugoku No.137' of huge germ descent is subjected to a germination treatment to improve the quality of the rice with the huge germ. Preferably, the germination treatment is carried out, for example, by washing 450 g brown rice of the 'Chugoku No.137', using a home germination tool, dipping the washed rice in 675 g water charged in a home germination tool, and treating the rice at 31 deg.C water temperature for 20 hr. A food such as a retort processing food such as a cooked rice, a food of sweets such as a rice cake, and a food material for processing such as a powder of the brown rice, containing the rice with the huge germ subjected to the germination treatment is preferably prepared.
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