Rice becomes sticky when it’s cooked because of something called starch. Starch is like a tiny, invisible glue that’s inside rice grains. When you cook rice with water, the starch comes out and makes the grains stick together. This is why you get sticky rice! The more starch in the rice, the stickier it becomes when you cook it. Different types of rice have different amounts of starch, which is why some rice is stickier than others.
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