Black rice, also known as purple rice or purple rice, is a family of rice types of rice varieties, some of which are glutinous.There are several types of black rice available today. These include Indonesian black rice, Philippine heirloom balatinaw black rice and pirurutong black sticky rice,[1][2]

Rice is the seed of the grass Oryza sativa (Oryza sativa) (Asian rice) or less commonly O. glaberrima (Oryza sativa). The name wild rice is commonly applied to species of the genera Zizania and Porteresia, both wild and domesticated, although the term can also be applied to the original or uncultiv