It is the scourge of the Nipponese and especially of the Navy, because they eat too much polished rice, not enough fish and vegetables.

Indeed, feeding the pigeons upon polished rice leads to an easily recognizable behavior of head retraction, a condition called opisthotonos.

Brown rice (unpolished) in this study contained double the concentration of polished rice.

Further milling of brown rice creates white rice or polished rice.

In some regions, physicians have observed thiamine deficiency brought about by severe malnutrition, particularly in diets consisting mainly of polished rice, which is thiamine-deficient.

Most meals are built around a cone-shaped pile of long-grain, highly polished rice.

Beriberi has been common in Asian countries in which people subsist on a diet of polished white rice.

Rice milling yield refers to the amount of polished white rice obtained from unhusked rough rice.

The loose gravel slid away under his feet like polished rice.

In the prisons serving mainly polished white rice the proportion was 1 in 39.