Rice Bran & De-Oiled Rice Bran (DORB)

Full-fat rice bran and de-oiled rice bran for feed, by protein, oil and FFA

Rice bran is the layer polished off brown rice on the way to white, 8–10% of the paddy, and it comes in two products that should never be confused on an enquiry. Full-fat rice bran carries 15–20% oil and 12–14% crude protein, and the oil is the problem: the bran's own lipase starts breaking it down the moment the polisher separates it, and free fatty acids (FFA) rise several per cent a day at tropical temperatures, so unstabilised full-fat bran must be fed within days, heat-stabilised at the mill or sent to a solvent-extraction plant. De-oiled rice bran (DORB) is what comes out of that extraction plant: oil ≤ 1–2%, crude protein lifted to 14–18% by the removal of the oil, crude fibre 8–12%, ash 10–16% (much of it silica from the hull fraction), moisture ≤ 12%, and a shelf life that lets it cross water. DORB is the product that trades internationally in bulk; full-fat bran trades regionally and in bags. The origins are the rice-milling countries, and UN Comtrade 2025 export declarations under HS 2302 — a heading that groups rice with wheat and other cereal brans — show India at 89.6k MT at an average USD 320/MT, Thailand at 61.7k MT at USD 269/MT, Pakistan at 51.1k MT at USD 348/MT and Sri Lanka at 150.6k MT at USD 157/MT, with Indonesia at 0.69 million MT at USD 153/MT across all brans. India is the largest DORB exporter and its export policy on the product has changed more than once in recent years, so a term contract out of India carries a policy risk that a Thai or Sri Lankan origin does not.

The buyer is a compound-feed mill, a dairy or a poultry integrator looking for a cheap protein and energy carrier, and DORB competes on cost per unit of protein with wheat bran, palm-kernel expeller and copra meal rather than with soybean meal. Its ceilings in a ration come from the fibre and the silica, both of which dilute energy, and from the phytate phosphorus that monogastrics cannot use without phytase; in ruminant, camel and layer rations it goes in at meaningful inclusion. On the certificate the items that fail are FFA on full-fat bran (a specification of ≤ 5–10% at loading, and the buyer should know the date of extraction or stabilisation), aflatoxin B1 (≤ 20 ppb) and, on DORB, residual hexane from the extraction and the hull content that drives the silica number. CBIL is a commodity brokerage company and brokers full-fat rice bran and DORB from Indian, Thai, Sri Lankan, Pakistani, Vietnamese and Indonesian rice mills and extraction plants against SGS, Intertek or Bureau Veritas certification of crude protein, oil, FFA, fibre, ash, silica, moisture and aflatoxin B1, with the destination feed-authority registration and the exporter's licence checked before we offer. Parcels are structured as 50 kg bags in containers or breakbulk, jumbo bags and Handysize bulk lots of DORB on FOB, CFR and CIF terms into the Gulf, East Africa and Chattogram, and because CBIL also runs a chartering desk (LaycanDesk) the freight leg is quoted with the cargo. Send your protein floor, oil ceiling, ration type and discharge port and we will work an origin and a product to it.

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