In addition to helping you to lose weight, broken rice is also good for the health of your heart. Since it is full of potassium, you can keep your heart rhythm steady and develop your cardiac functions. Moreover, by having broken rice, you will be able to strengthen your arteries and the muscles in your heart.

Broken rice is fragmented, not defective; so there is nothing wrong with it. It is as nutritious as the equivalent quantity of unbroken rice (i.e. if all the germ and bran remains, it is as nutritious as brown rice; if none remains, it is only as nutritious as white rice).

But broken rice wasn't always a popular fast-food option. Eating it was once a necessity that came with a stigma attached. Poor rice farmers in the Mekong Delta started eating the broken grains because they could not sell them — and they soon developed a taste for them.