Tesco Value Basmati Rice currently costs £1.50 per kilo, compared with the Tesco 'regular' (ie. non-value) Basmati rice, which sells at around the £1.60 mark. This is a mystifyingly small price difference, especially since - although this being dry rice brands we're comparing, obviously you can't tell just by looking -the rice sold in the 'value' bags is, I think, definitely of poorer quality than the regular Basmati rice. Basmati rice is a type of long-grain white rice, with slender, particularly elongated grains. It's got a fragrance to it when it's dry as well as when it's cooked that give it a special delicious flavour, and as the grains are ...  Read the complete review