Talk:Rice milk

History?
Is it true that this drink originally came from Mexican cuisine? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.212.100.83 (talk • contribs).


 * No. I am not clear on the definitive history of rice milk in general, but even Horchata itself is of Spanish, not Mexican, origin. The Latin word hordeum, for barley, is the root of Horchata, as far as I know. There was a medieval form of "barley-water", flavored with almonds, known variously as orgemonde, orgeat, or orzata in different parts of Europe. Eventualy, in Spain, horchata de arroz, made of rice, (actual)milk, and sugar, was developed, and variations of the recipe were imported to the new world. Tenmiles 19:46, 18 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Some compare it to the milk of manatees - nonsense. --Brideshead 16:16, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm curious too. When & where was this drink "invented."

Manufacturers
Are you sure it's 'cool' to have this section? I haven't changed the broken links to good ones, or deleted them, because after all, I haven't been around wikipedia for too long, so I'm not sure if this is okay. Eddie mars 20:27, 15 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Frankly, I don't see any good reason for a list of rice milk manufacturers to be included in the article. Listing manufacturer names does little, if anything, to help define what rice milk is; and links to nonexistent articles don't help either. I am not clear on 'the rules' for this, but I'm going ahead and removing the section because I do feel that it has no justifiable place here. The editor who originally added that section (and the dead links) does not have a Wikipedia acccount, and apparently has not made any other contributions to Wikipedia under that particular IP address, so we are unable to engage them in a discussion of the matter. All the more reason I am inclined to believe that the addition was not entirely without bias. - Tenmiles 02:46, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

I totally agree that there shouldn't be links to manufacturers or commercial brands. The internet is global. References to brands only made in North America makes the article to US-centric. Those brands of rice milk aren't available in the UK, Australia or other places, and so that should be stated, or reference to them should be removed to keep the article of a global nature.

Infants
Rice milk is supposedly harmful to infants, but why? The rice milk tetra I have just tells me not to give it to them, but leaves it to that warning. --Enmoku (talk) 14:57, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

-- I am not at all certain, but I would guess than standard rice milk is discouraged for infants not because of any toxicity, but simply because if it displaces cow or human milk, then the infant receives many calories but would be deprived of needed protein. (By the way, I'm not sure what you mean by "tetra," Enmoku.  Dfgriggs (talk) 19:55, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Preparation
Rice milk is prepared by pressing it through a mill stream? What's a "mill stream." That description doesn't really convey any useful information.

Brown Rice?
There is an assertion in the article that rice milk is generally made from brown rice. I don't believe this... personally I don't like the flavor of rice milk made from brown rice. In perusing online home recipes for rice milk most call for white rice, or either,  with the publisher stating a preference for white rice.

I'm going to add a citation needed for the brown rice assertion. I will try to check back in a couple weeks.

Simicich (talk) 23:12, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
 * there is a source for using brown rice and brown rice syrup as starting materials; see this and other revisions and refs here. --Zefr (talk) 18:01, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

There is no question that rice milk can be made from brown rice. My question is the "generally" assertion. Simicich (talk) 12:37, 4 May 2020 (UTC)