“…As the most important staple food for over half of the world's population, rice (Oryza sativa L.) has been cultivated for nearly 6, 000 years (Bao, 2012;Maleki et al, 2020). Nowadays, growing health awareness prompt people to choose brown rice (BR) instead of polished rice (Lee et al, 2019;Mir et al, 2020), since BR is whole-grain rice which retains the embryo and bran layers, and contains more bioactive components, such as starch, protein, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA), phenolics and so on (Saleh et al, 2019;Waewkum & Singthong, 2021).…”