Why do we recite borei minei mezonot over rice?

Hello and blessings

Beit Yosef, Orach Chaim, siman 208

He first recites borei minei mezonot over it, even though it is not one of the Seven Species, since it is called food because it satisfies and nourishes the heart; and afterward, borei nefashot rabot, for the berachah me’ein shalosh was instituted only for the Seven Species

Blessings,

Binyamin Shmueli