Meaning & use
puffed rice
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Meaning
noununcountable
Rice grains that have been heated until they expand and become light and crispy.
Grammar: Uncountable: some puffed rice, a bowl of puffed rice.
Patterns
- puffed rice cereal
- a bowl of puffed rice
- puffed rice cake
She poured milk over her puffed rice for breakfast.
Puffed rice is often used in snack bars and desserts.
The recipe calls for two cups of puffed rice.
Common combinations
- puffed rice cereal
- Kids often eat puffed rice cereal with sugar.
- puffed rice cake
- He snacked on a puffed rice cake with peanut butter.
- puffed rice treat
- These puffed rice treats are easy to make at home.
Synonyms and how they differ
- puffed rice
- No common synonym; it is a specific food product.
Word family
- puff verb
- To swell or expand.
- puffed adjective
- Swollen or expanded, as in puffed rice.
Commonly confused: puffed rice or crispy rice?
puffed rice vs crispy rice
Crispy rice can refer to any rice that is crispy, often fried; puffed rice is specifically expanded by heat.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'puffed rice' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Puffed rice is uncountable, so 'a puffed rice' and 'puffed rices' are wrong. Option D misuses it as a verb. Option B correctly uses it as an uncountable noun.
Make it your own
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