PURPOSE: To provide a rice polishing equipment which can polish rice in the best rice polished state to be provided for raw material rice in compliance with characteristics of polished rice desired by rice polishing workers.
CONSTITUTION: A sample rice polishing means 101 for polishing sample rice extrated out of rice to be polished into a plurality of different polishing degrees provided in a rice polishing equipment with a rice polishing mechanism 3 which can polish rice to be polished in different states of polishing degrees, and sample rices of a plurality of different polishing degrees can be provided by the sample rice polishing means 101. The equipment also comprises sensing means 7 and 8 for sensing characteristics of smelling, whiteness and tasting respectively for the sample rices of different polishing degrees, a quality variation finding means 102 for finding respectively the state of variation in the characteristics of smelling, whiteness and tasting of sample rices as the functions of polishing degrees, a polishing degree selecting means 103 for selecting the polishing degree for enhancing the preferential quality characteristics and a main rice polishing means 104 for polishing the remaining rice to be polished in compliance with the polishing degree selected by the polishing degree selecting means 103.
SAKAI CHIAKI
YAMAUCHI RYOGO
