(AP) — Naoko Togami, presenter of the Japan Grain Inspection Association Food Research Laboratory booth, shows bags of rice flour and bread baked with 80 percent of rice flour and 20 percent of gluten during the 35th international food and beverage exhibition "Foodex Japan" in Chiba near Tokyo Tuesday, March 1, 2011.
The association, one of the largest grain inspectors, known as Kokken in Japan, offers a new way to eat more rice harvested domestically amid the surging global food prices including corn and wheat due to extreme weather events as droughts and floods that are occurring more frequently worldwide. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)