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I 'wash' my rice several times before it goes in the rice cooker. I wonder what percent of the arsenic I'm removing.
I do use the 100g rice 100ml water method not sure if adding more water and steaming for longer would work or not.
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Broccoli contains cyanide too. The rice arsenic thing is a bigger deal though. Some enterprising entrepreneur needs to come out with a percolating rice maker.
It’s clearly a sign. Vegetables are tying to kill us. :( apparently bamboo is deadly to humans and only pandas and lemurs (spelling) can eat it raw. It must be boiled for a period of time for human consumption.
I seem to remember a Bruce Sterling book(Islands in the Net?) where one of the characters avoided vegetables for this reason.
I wonder if arsenic in rice is even a true concern. Billions of people across Asia eat it as staple food and the incidence of cancer is usually lower (could be due to low reported cases though).
Not sure about Bangladesh, but arsenic was commonly used as an insecticide in US rice fields in the south, so rice from that region still has some of the highest arsenic concentrations on earth.
In the US rice is less of a staple food (except for infants), so it matters less, I guess.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Broccoli contains cyanide too. The rice arsenic thing is a bigger deal though. Some enterprising entrepreneur needs to come out with a percolating rice maker.
It’s clearly a sign. Vegetables are tying to kill us. :( apparently bamboo is deadly to humans and only pandas and lemurs (spelling) can eat it raw. It must be boiled for a period of time for human consumption.
Of cause they try to. It is normal evolutionary behavior of plants. And co-evolution of humans to being able to tolerate this toxins.
I wonder if arsenic in rice is even a true concern. Billions of people across Asia eat it as staple food and the incidence of cancer is usually lower (could be due to low reported cases though).
I wonder if arsenic in rice is even a true concern. Billions of people across Asia eat it as staple food and the incidence of cancer is usually lower (could be due to low reported cases though).
It depends on the country. The study mentions Bangladesh and (American) rice based baby food. Not sure about Bangladesh, but arsenic was commonly used as an insecticide in US rice fields in the south, so rice from that region still has some of the highest arsenic concentrations on earth. In the US rice is less of a staple food (except for infants), so it matters less, I guess.
If it's that way around it's likely to matter more, infants tend to be far more sensitive to toxins than adults. Specifically it can seriously affect brain development, same with lead.
I 'wash' my rice several times before it goes in the rice cooker. I wonder what percent of the arsenic I'm removing.
Handy for removing some starch too.
I 'wash' my rice several times before it goes in the rice cooker. I wonder what percent of the arsenic I'm removing.
Very little apparently: https://youtu.be/H_Lui1v2A1M?t=135