All these ancient rices are packed with health benefits than these modern day supplements. There is rice for every human need, given to married people or people trying to conceive, fundamentally it increased the ojas in the body. There is another rice variety called as neela samba, which would increase lactation for feeding mothers. The list goes on and on.In ancient days, when a girl attends puberty, they used to make black rice pudding called as puttu also known as rangoon puttu . This is because this will help her stabilizes her body and increase the iron in blood and stops accumulating fat in back and hip region, a place women add more fat. Over a period of time, we forgot the black rice and we only followed the ritual and pudding part. Even today, in some part of villages, when a girl is getting ready to be married, they used to give black rice based food to rebuild her into proper shape. Traditional cultivars of rice have nutritive value higher than hybrid rice varieties. These traditional rice varieties have lesser content of fat and good amount of oryzenol content as compared to hybrids and thus prevent the body from building up cholesterol levels. That ensures it as excellent source of food to be included as balanced diet in their routine dieting habits. These traditionally grown rice cultivars are good sources of minerals and vitamins such as niacin, thiamine, iron, riboflavin, vitamin d, calcium, and possess higher fiber and lesser amount of sugar content, making it an appealing choice for consumers suffering from diabetic complications. Rice does not contain gluten proteins present in wheat , thereby making it an essential alternative for persons having requirements of gluten free diets such as patients suffering from celiac diseases.