The outer layer of rice grains removed during polishing; used in pickling (ぬか漬け) and as animal feed.
糠で野菜を漬けると美味しいぬか漬けができる。
Pickling vegetables in rice bran makes delicious nukazuke.
精米すると
Rice bran is produced when polishing rice.
rice bran
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.