What is "red rice"

n. a dish of rice made with tomatoes; soul food from South Carolina

Red rice is a variety of rice that is colored red by its anthocyanin content. It is usually eaten unhulled or partially hulled, and has a red husk, rather than the more common brown. Red rice has a nutty flavor. Compared to polished rice, it has the higher nutritional value of rices eaten with the germ intact.

Red rice may refer to:

• Red rice, varieties of rice that are red in color
• Charleston red rice, a dish in the American states of South Carolina and Georgia
• Red Rice (album), a 1998 album by Eliza Carthy
• Red Rice, Hampshire, a small hamlet just south-west of Andover, Hampshire, England

Red Rice was a 1998 album by Eliza Carthy. The album was a nominee for the 1998 Mercury Music Prize.