“…The concentration of these nutrients and bioactive compounds may vary depending on influences such as rice variety, production environment or geographical origin, and postharvest treatments or processing conditions. The whole BR grain, germinated BR grain (GBR), or their derived extracts and fractions have shown several potential health benefits such as antioxidant, antidiabetic, anticancer, neuroprotective, and cholesterol lowering effects (Chompoopong et al., ; Chung, Rico, Lee, & Kang, ; Li, Chou, & Shih, ; Lim, Yong, Mohtarrudin, & Loh, ; Masuzaki et al., ; Pang et al., ). Therefore, the objective of this work is to review the last updates in research performed for purposes of evaluating of nutritional quality and potential health benefits of the whole BR to provide recent information to interested researchers and consumers, which may help in promotion of the whole BR consumption as a promising functional food and for its potential contribution to human well‐being.…”