Glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale is one of the most common orders we pack. We’re a Thai rice exporter working straight from the mill, and we sell Thai white glutinous rice (sticky rice) in 25 kg bags by the container. Grades are 5%, 10% and 25% broken, the bags can be plain or printed with your brand, and we ship to importers and distributors in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas, Africa and Oceania. Below you’ll find the specs, the bag options, how many bags fit in a container, shipping times, documents and how to order.
Why 25 kg? It’s the size most wholesale customers can actually handle. One person can lift it. It fits on a standard pallet in neat layers. Restaurants get through one in a few days, and a small grocer can split it or sell it whole. For most buyers, glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale hits the sweet spot between the cost savings of bulk and the convenience of smaller packs.
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About Us
De Thai Products 1989 Company Limited has been exporting Thai rice since 1989. Our sticky rice comes from mills in northern and northeastern Thailand, the heart of glutinous rice country. We also export Hom Mali, jasmine, white and parboiled rice, so a 25 kg sticky rice order can sit alongside other lines in one container.
You buy from us directly. No middleman, no second markup, and the people quoting your glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale order are the same people who check it at loading.
The Rice Inside the Bag
Thai glutinous rice is short to medium grain, opaque and milky white when raw. After soaking and steaming it turns glossy, soft and sticky. Its starch is nearly all amylopectin, which is why it clumps together instead of separating like jasmine or long grain white. There’s no gluten in it at all, whatever the name suggests. The Wikipedia entry on glutinous rice has the background if your customers ask.
In the 25 kg size we mostly ship the 5% and 10% grades for restaurants and grocers, and the 25% grade for food processors. See our main product pages for Thai glutinous rice and Thai glutinous rice 25% broken.
Grades Available in 25 kg Bags
| Grade | Broken | Typical buyer |
|---|---|---|
| Glutinous rice 5% broken | Max 5% | Restaurants, Asian grocers, dessert shops |
| Glutinous rice 10% broken | Max 10% | Wholesalers, cash and carry, caterers |
| Glutinous rice 25% broken | Max 25% | Flour mills, snack and frozen food factories |
Every grade comes in the same glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale format, so you can mix grades in one container. A lot of distributors take 5% for their restaurant customers and 25% for their factory customers on the same booking.
Specifications
5% broken
| Parameter | Specification |
|---|---|
| Product | Thai white glutinous rice |
| Origin | Thailand |
| Crop | Current crop |
| Grain | Short to medium, opaque white |
| Broken grains | Max 5% |
| Moisture | Max 14% |
| Glutinous purity | Min 95% |
| Damaged grains | Max 0.5% |
| Yellow grains | Max 0.2% |
| Red and red-streaked | Max 0.5% |
| Foreign matter | Max 0.1% |
| Milling | Well milled, double polished, 100% sortexed |
| Net weight | 25 kg per bag |
10% broken
| Parameter | Specification |
|---|---|
| Broken grains | Max 10% |
| Moisture | Max 14% |
| Glutinous purity | Min 95% |
| Damaged grains | Max 1% |
| Foreign matter | Max 0.2% |
| Net weight | 25 kg per bag |
25% broken
| Parameter | Specification |
|---|---|
| Broken grains | Max 25% |
| Moisture | Max 14% |
| Glutinous purity | Min 92% |
| Damaged grains | Max 1.5% |
| Foreign matter | Max 0.5% |
| Net weight | 25 kg per bag |
There’s no chalky grain line in any of these, and that’s deliberate. Sticky rice is supposed to look chalky. What we watch instead is purity, meaning how much ordinary rice has crept in. Even 5 to 8% of non-glutinous grains changes how the batch steams. We grade to the Thai national standard and follow Codex Alimentarius limits. More on our rice standard page.
25 kg Bag Options
Not every 25 kg bag is the same. The bag you pick depends on how long the rice will sit, how it’ll be handled and whether it’s going on a shop floor.
| Bag type | What it is | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Plain PP woven | White woven polypropylene, stitched top | Factories, trade buyers, lowest cost |
| PP woven with PE liner | Woven outer with a plastic inner bag | Long voyages, humid ports, longer storage |
| BOPP laminated printed | Glossy full-colour printed woven bag | Branded wholesale, grocers, cash and carry |
| Printed PP woven | 1 to 3 colour print on plain woven | Private label on a budget |
| Kraft paper bag | Multi-wall paper with liner | Markets that prefer paper |
All our glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale packs are machine weighed and machine stitched. We pack to a net weight of 25 kg with a small allowance on top, so you don’t lose weight to moisture loss on the voyage. Gross weight is about 25.1 to 25.15 kg depending on the bag.
What Goes on the Bag
If you want printed bags, we’ll put your brand on them. Each bag normally shows:
- Brand name and logo
- Product name, for example Thai Glutinous Rice or Sweet Rice
- Net weight 25 kg
- Grade and broken percentage
- Origin: Product of Thailand
- Crop year, milling date and best before date
- Importer or distributor name and address
- Cooking instructions in the language your market uses
- Any import registration number your country needs
Text can be in English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese or almost anything else. We send a print proof before the bags go into production. Printed bags take about two to three weeks, so allow for that when you plan your first glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale order. Our brands page shows some labels we already pack.
How Many 25 kg Bags Fit in a Container
This is the question we get most, so here it is plainly.
| Container | Bags of 25 kg | Net weight |
|---|---|---|
| 20ft dry | 1,000 to 1,040 bags | 25 to 26 MT |
| 40ft dry | 1,080 to 1,120 bags | 27 to 28 MT |
A 40ft box doesn’t carry much more weight than a 20ft because of road and port limits, which is why most glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale buyers book 20ft containers. Bags are hand stacked or loaded on pallets. Pallets make unloading faster but take up space, so you’ll fit about 20 MT on pallets in a 20ft. We’ll do whichever your warehouse prefers. There’s more detail in our post on how many tons of rice fit in a 20ft container.
Who Buys Glutinous Rice in 25 kg Bags
- Thai and Lao restaurants that cook sticky rice every day
- Chinese restaurants and dim sum kitchens for lo mai gai and dumplings
- Dessert shops making mango sticky rice, mochi and rice balls
- Asian grocers who sell the bag whole or split it into smaller packs
- Caterers and hotel kitchens
- Small food factories making frozen dumplings, rice cakes and snacks
- Distributors supplying all of the above
For this kind of buyer, glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale is simply easier than 50 kg. Staff can carry it without a trolley, it fits on a kitchen shelf, and an open bag gets used up before it goes stale.
Shipping Times
We load from Bangkok and Laem Chabang. Rough transit:
| Destination | Transit time |
|---|---|
| East and Southeast Asia | 5 to 15 days |
| South Asia | 10 to 20 days |
| Middle East | 16 to 28 days |
| Europe | 28 to 40 days |
| North America | 20 to 45 days |
| Australia and New Zealand | 15 to 30 days |
| Africa | 20 to 50 days |
We clean and inspect every container, line it with kraft paper and add desiccant bags on long or humid routes. You get the vessel name and ETA before paying the balance.
Documents
Each glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale shipment comes with:
- Commercial invoice and packing list
- Bill of lading
- Certificate of origin, including Form E, Form D or other preferential forms where they apply
- Phytosanitary certificate
- Fumigation certificate
- Quality and weight certificate from an independent surveyor
- Certificate of analysis
- Health certificate or other papers if your country asks
Check with your customs agent first, as rules differ a lot. Our guide to rice export documents explains each one, and how to import rice from Thailand takes you through the process start to finish.
Price for Glutinous Rice 25 kg Bags
Glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale prices move with the northern harvest, the baht and freight, so we quote on the day. As a rough guide, the 25 kg bag costs a little more per ton than 50 kg because there are twice as many bags to buy, fill and stitch. Printed BOPP bags add a bit more again. The difference is usually small, and for most buyers it’s worth it.
Things that change your glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale price:
- Grade, 5%, 10% or 25% broken
- Plain or printed bag
- With or without inner liner
- New crop or older stock
- FOB, CFR or CIF
- Order size and frequency
For a benchmark, the Thai Rice Exporters Association publishes weekly reference prices. Our post on the Thai glutinous rice wholesale price breaks the numbers down, and FOB vs CIF rice price explains the terms. Payment is usually 30% T/T deposit with the balance against a copy of the B/L, or an L/C at sight, and every contract uses Incoterms rules.
Quality Control
What happens before your bags are loaded:
- Paddy is checked for variety and purity when it reaches the mill
- Milled rice is colour sorted to remove yellow, red and damaged grains
- Each lot is tested for moisture, brokens and glutinous purity
- We soak and steam a sample to test stickiness
- Bags are check-weighed on the line
- A surveyor samples, tests and seals at loading
- You get photos of the bags, the stuffing and the sealed container
See our quality control page for more. On every glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale lot we take the cooking test seriously, because a sample can pass the lab and still steam unevenly if purity is borderline.
Storing 25 kg Bags
- Stack on pallets, never straight on concrete
- Keep stacks no higher than about 10 to 12 bags for safety
- Keep the warehouse dry and airy
- Store away from spices, fish, chemicals and fuel
- First in, first out
- Check for weevils regularly in hot months
Good storage keeps glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale stock in shape for 12 to 24 months from milling. For glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale going to humid climates, bags with a PE liner hold up better.
New Crop vs Aged Rice
New crop sticky rice is softer and stickier and needs a shorter soak. After a few months it firms up a little. Restaurants and dessert shops usually prefer new crop. Factories sometimes prefer aged rice because it behaves more predictably. Tell us which you want for your glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale order and we’ll choose the lot. The idea is explained well in our post on old crop vs new crop jasmine rice.
Timing Your Orders
The main sticky rice harvest runs from October to December, and new crop reaches the mills from late November. Demand from Asian buyers climbs before Lunar New Year and again before the Dragon Boat Festival. If you’re buying glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale for those peaks, book six to eight weeks ahead. Our Thai rice harvest season post has the full calendar.
Mixed Loads
You can load glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale orders with other Thai rice in one container: Hom Mali, jasmine, white rice 5% broken or sushi rice. If you already buy long grain in 25 kg, our post on long grain white rice 25kg bag wholesale is worth a look. The full range is on our products page.
Mistakes We See With 25 kg Orders
- Picking the cheapest bag for a long voyage. Unlined woven bags in a humid port can mean musty rice. Pay a little more for a liner.
- Forgetting weight allowance. Rice loses a little moisture at sea. We overfill slightly so you still get 25 kg net.
- Late artwork. Printed bags hold up the shipment if the artwork arrives late. Send it early.
- Wrong grade for the customer. A dessert shop won’t be happy with 25% broken. Match the grade to the end user.
- No surveyor. Always have the lot checked at loading. We arrange it as standard.
Questions to Ask Any Supplier
Before paying a deposit for glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale anywhere, ask for:
- A spec sheet that lists glutinous purity
- A courier sample you cook yourself
- Photos of the actual bags with the actual print
- A company you can verify
- Third-party inspection at loading
- A written contract with Incoterms
If you can’t get these, keep looking. You can read more about us on our about us page.
7 Proven Tips for Glutinous Rice 25kg Bag Wholesale
- Ask for purity, not only brokens. It’s what decides the texture.
- Steam the sample. Soak four hours or more and steam. Never judge sticky rice boiled.
- Use a lined bag for long or humid routes. It’s cheap insurance.
- Sort out the artwork early. Printed bags take two to three weeks.
- Pick pallets or floor stack. Pallets unload faster, floor stack fits more.
- Book before festival peaks. Prices and space both tighten before Lunar New Year.
- Stay with one supplier. Your restaurant customers will notice if the rice changes.
Glutinous Rice 25kg Bag Wholesale for Restaurants
Restaurants are the biggest single group buying glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale from us, usually through a local distributor. A busy Thai or Lao restaurant can go through two or three bags a week. What they want is simple: the same rice every time, soft and sticky after a normal soak, with no hard centres and no off smell.
For this trade we recommend the 5% broken grade, new crop where possible, in a printed BOPP bag or a lined woven bag. The bag sits in a hot kitchen store for a week or more once it’s opened, so a fold-over top or a reseal clip helps. Some distributors ask us to print cooking instructions on the back in the local language, which saves their sales staff a lot of explaining to new kitchens.
Glutinous Rice 25kg Bag Wholesale for Grocers and Repackers
Asian grocers buy glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale for two reasons. Some sell the 25 kg bag whole to families and small caterers who eat sticky rice every day. Others split it into 1 kg or 2 kg bags in their own shop. If you’re repacking, the 25 kg size is easier to handle on a small packing table than 50 kg, and you lose less rice to spillage.
If your shelf sales are strong, it may be cheaper to have us pack 1 kg and 2 kg retail bags in Thailand and ship them ready to sell. We’re happy to price both ways so you can compare. Plenty of our customers run both: 25 kg for the trade counter, small packs for the shelf, all in one container.
Glutinous Rice 25kg Bag Wholesale for Food Factories
Factories making mochi, tang yuan, frozen dumplings, rice crackers or rice wine often think they need 50 kg or jumbo bags. Some do. But smaller plants and plants where staff tip rice by hand into soaking tanks often prefer glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale, because it’s safer for workers to lift and easier to count in and out of stock.
For processing, the 10% and 25% broken grades usually make the most sense. Once the rice is milled into flour or cooked into a filling, nobody can tell whole grain from broken. What matters is purity, moisture and how evenly each lot soaks. We keep those steady from one container to the next, and we can hold back a lot for you if you need the same crop over several months. More on this in our post on being a rice supplier for food manufacturers.
A Typical First Order
Here’s what a normal first glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale order looks like for a mid-sized distributor:
| Item | Example |
|---|---|
| Container | 1 x 20ft |
| Product | Thai glutinous rice 5% broken, new crop |
| Packing | 25 kg BOPP printed bag with buyer brand, PE liner |
| Quantity | 1,000 bags, 25 MT net |
| Terms | CIF buyer port |
| Payment | 30% T/T deposit, 70% against copy B/L |
| Inspection | Independent surveyor at loading |
| Lead time | About 3 to 4 weeks from deposit with printed bags |
Your order doesn’t have to look like this. Some buyers start with half a container of sticky rice and half jasmine. Others take plain bags on the first order while their artwork is being finished, and switch to printed bags from the second container. We’re flexible about how you start.
Cooking Guide to Print on the Bag
If your customers are new to Thai sticky rice, put these steps on the bag. It cuts down complaints a lot:
- Rinse the rice two or three times
- Soak in cold water for at least 4 hours, or overnight
- Drain well
- Steam over boiling water in a basket or a steamer lined with cloth for 20 to 25 minutes
- Turn the rice over once halfway through
- Keep covered until serving
Most of the “bad rice” complaints we hear about sticky rice turn out to be someone boiling it like jasmine. A clear instruction on every glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale pack fixes that. If you want to explain the difference to customers, our post on glutinous rice vs jasmine rice covers it simply.
How to Order
- Tell us grade, bag type, quantity and port
- We send a price, spec sheet and loading date
- We agree terms and sign
- Deposit or L/C
- We mill, sort, bag and book
- Surveyor inspects, we load and seal
- Documents and tracking go to you
- You clear and collect
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the minimum for glutinous rice 25kg bag wholesale?
One 20ft container, roughly 1,000 bags. You can mix grades or add other rice. See our minimum order quantity page.
Can I get 25 kg bags with my own brand?
Yes. We print BOPP or PP woven bags with your design.
Do you add an inner liner?
On request, and we recommend it for long routes or humid climates.
Is the 25 kg net or gross?
25 kg net. Gross is a little over because of the bag.
Can I get samples?
Yes, 1 to 2 kg by courier.
Do you also pack 50 kg and 1 kg?
Yes, from 1 kg retail packs up to 50 kg bags and jumbo bags.
Request a Quote for Glutinous Rice 25kg Bag Wholesale
Send us the grade, bag type, quantity and port, and we’ll come back with a firm price, a spec sheet and a loading window, normally within one working day. Want to see the rice first? Ask for samples.
Email info@dethairice.com, WhatsApp +66 81 034 6390, or go to our contact page. You can also read about sweet rice wholesale, our bulk sticky rice supply and glutinous rice for sale.
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