Short-Grain Rice

short-grain rice Short-grain is one of the categories that the international community has established for the description of rice. Categories are based on the ratio of length to width of grain, not on absolute length. Short-grain rice has grains that are less than twice as long as they are wide. These very rounded grains include many varieties of sweet rice, pudding rices, and some of the Mediterranean rices. Often, however, “short-grain rice” is casually used to refer to medium-grain rices as well, as a way of saying “not long-grain.”