IMPORTANCE, HEALTH BENEFITS AND BIOACTIVITIES OF SRI LANKAN TRADITIONAL RICE (Oryza sativa L.) VARIETIES: A REVIEW

dc.contributor.author	Thushara, P.A.N
dc.contributor.author	Godakumbura, P.I
dc.contributor.author	Prashantha, M.A.B
dc.date.accessioned	2022-02-11T05:51:05Z
dc.date.available	2022-02-11T05:51:05Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.identifier.citation	Thushara, P.A.N., Godakumbura, P.I. and Prashantha, M.A.B.(2019)."IMPORTANCE, HEALTH BENEFITS AND BIOACTIVITIES OF SRI LANKAN TRADITIONAL RICE (Oryza sativa L.) VARIETIES: A REVIEW", International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Bioresearch, Vol. 4, No. 03; 2019	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://dr.lib.sjp.ac.lk/handle/123456789/10246
dc.description.abstract	Rice is the major staple food of almost half of the world’s population. It has significant nutrition and health implications. Being a major energy contributor to the body of rice consuming population, there is a huge increasing concern on rice worldwide. Sri Lankan traditional rice varieties have scientifically proven high nutritional values, low glycemic indices with antidiabetic effect, anticancer potency against human lung cancer cells, antiglycation and antiamylase effects. This review gathers studies mainly on health benefits and bioactivities of Sri Lankan traditional rice varieties and provides a critical overview of the current states of the consumption and benefits of rice	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Bioresearch	en_US
dc.subject	Sri Lankan traditional rice, nutritional value, antioxidants, cytotoxicity, diabetic	en_US
dc.title	IMPORTANCE, HEALTH BENEFITS AND BIOACTIVITIES OF SRI LANKAN TRADITIONAL RICE (Oryza sativa L.) VARIETIES: A REVIEW	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US