Better for you and just as tastygreat japanese cooking requires great japanese rice and this 1kg box of yumenishiki brown rice is up to the task cultivated in italy this rice is a new variety of koshihikari a type of japonica rice grown using traditional japanese growing methods and prepared with the outer bran layer kept on which gives the rice extra nutritional benefits and a slightly nutty flavour use every day as a side dish to a japanese meal or mould into sushi and onigiri rice b