It can be sold and exported and people can use it instead of buying expensive wheat flour.
You can now buy grano arso in Apulia; in fact, it's more expensive than regular flour.
The more rice you buy at a time, the less expensive the rice flour becomes.
Food prices have soared, making some basics, even flour, too expensive for the poorest to afford.
Many have given up their garden production and depend on expensive, imported products: rice, flour, canned and tinned food.
Alan García, the president, has ordered that a government-sponsored programme of free breakfasts for poor families should serve bread made from a mixture of potato flour with (expensive and mainly imported) wheat.
Fine-textured food was also associated with wealth; for example, finely milled flour was expensive, while the bread of commoners was typically brown and coarse.
Further information is needed on the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of such a distribution, as RUF products are still more expensive than existing fortified flours.
In the 19th century, it was used as a substitute for wheat flour, which was expensive and not yet widely available.
"It's expensive to mix your own flours," she said.
