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Rice consumption in Europe

How much rice do people in Europe consume? Still very far from the 268kg in Bangladesh. Source: https://landgeist.com/2022/06/25/rice-consumption-in-europe/

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Portugal 🤝 Turkey

Serbia: what is rice?

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- Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.
  
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Interesting, thanks for sharing. 👍

Why does Belgium has such a high rice consumption in comparison to the Netherlands or Germany?

Any special Belgian dish I am not aware of or a high percentage of immigrants?

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- I honestly have no clue. I mean I know we eat rice, but wouldn't say we eat a lot of it. And while we do have a large immigrant percentage, not a significant amount of those are from regions where eating rice is popular.
  
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- We have a lot of people of Turkish decent, so maybe that's part of the explanation? Not sure though.
  
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  In Belgium, about 2.0% (220000) have Turkish citizenship or (partial) ethnicity/ancestors, whereas in Germany, it's 4.2% (3.5-4mio people). That can't be it.
  
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  But afaik the nehterlands have a „large“ malaysian population and a couple if „classic“ snacks are variation of east asian dishes (bamischijf, peanut sauce on fries)
  
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the article links to the same breakdown for asian contries which puts this in perspective lol https://landgeist.com/2022/05/31/rice-consumption-in-asia/

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- Exactly, 268Kg in Bangladesh puts all Europeans on the same level.
  
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  Wat? That is 2700calories per day. Firstly this is more than an average person needs, and secondly I would have thought that calorie consumption in Bangladesh is a little lower.
  
  Edit: I thought maybe they mean cooked rice, but no. It's uncooked.
  
  The data for this map comes from the FAO. The data includes any product made of rice, including rice noodles, sake, rice starch, rice flour and other products made of rice. The amount of rice in the dataset concerns the raw (uncooked) weight.
  
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I'm Portuguese and I approve this. I love rice.

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Portuguese here.

When in a foreign country, I'm always shocked when I see rice is an optional side.

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- I was so surprised to find a lot more choice than than the basic preboiled white rice in Portuguese supermarkets. You guys have local (!) Whole grain rice that doesn't cost a fortune.
  
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- Does Brazil consume rice because of Portugal, or is it the other way around?
  
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  I guess must be Portugal's influence in Brazil. Rice is cultivated in Southern Europe since ancient Greek times and it was made popular in Iberia during the Arab occupation, so since before there was a Portuguese state.
  
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¿Does such a statistic refer to the dry amount of rice that you purchase at a store or the soaked state that you put in your mouth and which contains manifold its own dry weight in water?

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- The dry for sure. Otherwise we would be starving.
  
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- The data for this map comes from the FAO. The data includes any product made of rice, including rice noodles, sake, rice starch, rice flour and other products made of rice. The amount of rice in the dataset concerns the raw (uncooked) weight.
  
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  Interesting, I often purchase rice crackers/paddies. I guess they would overestimate my consumption because 1 kg of dry rice will get you much further (once you add the water) calorie wise than 1 kg of rice waffles.
  
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Italy is a whole lot higher up than I’d have thought…

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- They eat a lot of risotto.
  
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  I live there 4 months out of the year. Still wouldn’t have guessed it that high.
  
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Interesting, What kind of rice do you have in europe?

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- There are quite a few local varieties. An Italian one for risotto. A Spanish one for paella. Portugal has a couple of own ones, "carolino" being the most popular nationally and "agulha" the most similar to basmati.
  
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