By William Taylor Potter
Lafayette Daily Advertiser
Rice may soon be able to return to the plates of many Louisianans with the development of a new, more nutritious type of white rice with 53% more protein and a low glycemic index score, which was created and farmed in Acadiana.
M&S Frugé Farms, a second-generation rice farm in Eunice, engineered and is distributing the new rice, called Parish Rice. The GMO-free rice has a glycemic index score of 41 out of 100, according to the company and the LSU Agriculture Center, which is the lowest of any white rice on the market.