Shop Gaay Mamra 500gm Online

Puffed rice. Rice grains are heated until the moisture inside turns to steam and expands them, which leaves a dry, hollow, very light grain. Nothing is added in the puffing itself.

Close in principle, different in practice. Breakfast puffed rice is usually larger, often coated or sweetened, and made to survive milk. Mamra is plain, smaller and left dry, because what it is used for assumes it will be mixed with other things.

Because puffed rice is nearly all air. A 500 gram pack takes up the room of several kilos of most other dry goods, which is normal for this product and not a sign you have been sent the wrong size.

Mostly grain size and how sturdy the puff is -- some crush more readily than others. Those differences come from the rice used and the puffing process, and they are the usual reason a familiar recipe behaves differently with a new bag.

Air is the problem, not time. Anything crisp starts softening as soon as the pack is open, so the pack wants resealing properly or the contents moving into an airtight container. Keep it dry and out of the sun, and keep it out of the fridge -- the condensation in there will soften it faster than leaving it on the bench.

Sealed containers, and a couple of days in the freezer when a pack arrives. Pantry moths usually come in with the goods rather than flying into your kitchen, so treating a pack on arrival catches the problem before it spreads along the shelf.

Rice, with the ingredient list, any allergen statement and the best-before date printed on the pack by the manufacturer. Some makers puff with salt or use a processing aid, so the pack is the thing to read rather than this page.

No. This page describes what the product is, what it is made from in general terms, and how it is packed and kept. It carries no statement about what the product does for you, and nothing on it should be read as dietary or nutritional advice. The ingredient statement and any nutrition information panel printed on the pack are the only descriptions of what is in it, and the manufacturer is the source for both.

Yes. Ingredients, allergen declarations, any nutrition information panel, the manufacturer's own storage instruction and the best-before date are all printed on the pack by the maker. Where this page and a pack differ, the pack is right.

Yes. Products in this range are imported, so pack design, size and label wording can change between shipments. What arrives is what the current pack says, which is another reason to read the label rather than rely on a description.

Yes. DoorToShop lets you build one order across more than one local store, so this can go in the same basket as whatever else you are getting that day.

Delivery is calculated at checkout, where the exact amount is confirmed. Free delivery applies above the threshold shown there, in the Auckland region only. There is no minimum order value, and you can combine items from other local stores in the same cart.