What's the difference between congee and rice?

Congee


Definition:

  • (n. & v.) See Conge, Conge.
  • (n.) Boiled rice; rice gruel.
  • (n.) A jail; a lockup.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To buy it from the Guardian Bookshop for £22.50, click here Uyen Luu’s seabass congee Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer With kale, ginger and dill Congee is a soup usually made from leftover cooked rice and is a breakfast favourite in Vietnam.
  • (2) In study B, test meals of 300 ml of steamed rice, congee, 16.6% glucose, 5% glucose or a combined congee-metoclopramide meal (in which 10 mg metoclopramide i.v.
  • (3) When the congee has come back to the boil add the dill and the strips of fish and gently stir, being careful not to damage the delicate flesh.
  • (4) was given 15 min before the congee was eaten) were given to seven subjects.
  • (5) In study A, consisting of four groups of six subjects each, we measured the differences in pH, viscosity, and osmolality of in vivo and in vitro samples of steamed rice, congee, and 16.6 and 5% glucose solutions in 300-ml volumes.
  • (6) The incremental glucose response to steamed rice was greater than that to congee, but the incremental insulin response was greatest with congee plus metoclopramide.
  • (7) Metoclopramide increased the gastric emptying of congee to that approaching steamed rice.

Rice


Definition:

  • (n.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
  • (2) After the diagnosis of a soft-tissue injury (sprain, strain, or contusion) has been made, treatment must include an initial 24- to 48-hour period of RICE.
  • (3) The accumulation of the mRNA corresponding to a rice high pI alpha-amylase gene, OSamy-c, was stimulated 20-fold by exogenous GA3 in half-seeds lacking embryos.
  • (4) Traditional dietary preparations for diarrhea such as carrot soup and products based on rice have essentially an absorbent power and do not diminish intestinal loss of water and electrolytes.
  • (5) Altogether, 17 species were recorded from the rice fields.
  • (6) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (7) Channels containing a variety of viable cells permeated the rice bodies.
  • (8) The pattern of distribution of histone H3 mRNA during the development of the rice grain and its germination was monitored by in situ hybridization and confirmed by Northern blot analysis.
  • (9) The sera were used to type 137 isolates of B. cereus from 34 British and Australian incidents of food poisoning associated with the consumption of cooked rice.
  • (10) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
  • (11) Dogs fed on both gari diet and the rice + cyanide diet generated significant amounts of thiocyanate when compared with the controls, with the rice + cyanide group having higher plasma thiocyanate than the gari group (P less than 0.01).
  • (12) In the case of mutation assays, presoaked rice seeds were treated with 100, 200 or 300 ppm 2,4-D for 4 h and sown in the field.
  • (13) Cases tended to consume slightly more rice, but less protein-rich foods (i.e., bean curd, meat, eggs) and vegetables than did controls.
  • (14) The isolates were grown on rice and tested as a diet for toxicity to rats.
  • (15) Polished rice samples harvested in 1985 were collected from 25 prefectures throughout Japan.
  • (16) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
  • (17) Feasibility of home treatment of diarrhoea with packaged rice-based oral rehydration salts (R-ORS) was compared, in terms of cost, with that for glucose-based oral rehydration salts (G-ORS).
  • (18) For now, temporary carers receive rice, secondhand clothes for the children, toiletries and a small stipend, while regular financial help from the government and Unicef is being considered.
  • (19) The extrachromosomal DNA represents about 1% of total rice DNA and its level of amplification is not affected by the different phases of growth in culture.
  • (20) Northern blot analysis showed that the catalase intron was efficiently spliced in rice cells while transgenic tobacco plants contained both spliced and unspliced gusA transcripts in equal amounts.

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