The outer layer of rice grains removed during polishing; used in pickling (ぬか漬け) and as animal feed.
Pickling vegetables in rice bran makes delicious nukazuke.
Rice bran is produced when polishing rice.
rice bran
biting midge; no-see-um
rice-bran oil
silver hairgrass
Standard kanji spelling.
Kana spelling is common in everyday writing, especially in recipes and casual contexts.
Native Japanese word. The kanji 糠 is a phono-semantic compound with 米 (rice) and 康 (phonetic component), but the exact historical derivation of the reading ぬか is uncertain.