Elke K. Arendt, Emanuele Zannini, in Cereal Grains for the Food and Beverage Industries, 2013 3.4.1 Parboiling rice. Parboiling paddy (or rough rice) is a hydro-thermal treatment aimed at inducing milling, nutritional and organoleptic improvements in rice (Kar et al., 1999).It is an alternative method to prolong rice storage, reduce broken grain, increase head rice yield and reduce nutritional ...