Erich Huzenlaub

Erich Huzenlaub (born October 27, 1888 in Stuttgart; died September 12, 1964 in Houston) was a German chemist. He invented the Huzenlaub Process for parboiling rice.

Huzenlaub studied chemistry in Germany. Huzenlaub emigrated to England and worked for company Converted Rice Inc. in Houston. He invented a form of parboiling designed to retain more of the nutrients in rice, now known as the Huzenlaub Process. The process consisted first in vacuum drying the whole grain, then steaming, and finally vacuum drying and husking. Besides increasing rice's nutritional value, it also made it resistant to weevils and reduced cooking time. Erich Huzenlaub visited a number of rice millers in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi in 1942. He met American entrepreneur and food broker Gordon Harwell, who was in contact with Forrest Mars Sr.. They financed and built up a plant for paraboiled rice in Houston, Texas, in which paraboiled rice was made after the Huzenlaub Process.

He was married with Amelia Huzenlaub and had three chrildren.

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