水稻是原产于我国的农作物。考古发现,约在一万年前,水稻已在我国长江流域广泛栽培。如今水稻仍是我国,特别是南方地区乃至整个东亚地区的主要农作物和人们的日常主食。在西方人的饮食传统中,大米的地位并不重要,甚至有的营养专家也认为大米除了作为人体能量来源外,很难被认为是一种有营养的食物。然而最近几年,在一些传统上不吃大米的国家,大米的消 Rice is a crop native to China. Archeology discovered that about 10,000 years ago, rice was widely cultivated in China’s Yangtze River basin. Today, rice is still the staple food of major crops and people in our country, especially in the southern part of China and throughout East Asia. In the Western dietary tradition, the status of rice is not important. Some nutritionists even think that rice is hardly considered a nutritious food except as a source of energy for the human body. In recent years, however, rice has been eliminated in some countries that traditionally do not eat rice