Acadiana Farmer and LSU AgCenter Develop New, Healthier Variety of White Rice

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.

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