Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015) • Hacker News Board

Re: Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)

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Post by delinka » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 11:57 AM UTC

DoctorOetker wrote: post #60

delinka wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it isn't a significant source of dietary arsenic.

the article states: >Billions of people eat rice daily, but it contributes more arsenic to the human diet than any other food. so that is in direct contradiction to your claim, according to you, what are then the more significant sources of dietary arsenic? then we can start comparing levels...

There's a definition for "significant source" for each type of food component. The food components for which this is a valid statement are fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, dietary fiber, sugars, and various vitamins.

My comment is sarcasm and intends to indicate that arsenic comes in such an insignificant quantity as to not even be on FDA's radar for even defining levels for reporting on nutritional labels.

Re: Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)

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Post by InitialLastName » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 12:27 PM UTC

DoctorOetker wrote: post #60

delinka wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because it isn't a significant source of dietary arsenic.

the article states: >Billions of people eat rice daily, but it contributes more arsenic to the human diet than any other food. so that is in direct contradiction to your claim, according to you, what are then the more significant sources of dietary arsenic? then we can start comparing levels...

Given that (as I have to assume) most human diets are optimized to some extent around the parameter "Doesn't contain much arsenic", something could be the largest contributor of arsenic while still providing too little arsenic to have an effect on health.

Re: Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)

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Post by jayalpha » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 9:20 PM UTC

gpm wrote: post #55

jayalpha wrote: post #35

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"Vegetables are tying to kill us." Of cause they try to. It is normal evolutionary behavior of plants. And co-evolution of humans to being able to tolerate this toxins.

We kinda fucked that up now though. The most successful plants are now that ones we like to eat instead of the ones we don't like to eat.

This is another evolutionary strategy.

In fact, milk and wheat may have compounds, that are addictive.

Re: Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice (2015)

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Post by mveety » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 6:44 AM UTC

askvictor wrote: post #53

option_greek wrote: post #33

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).

A brief bit of googling suggested suggests that rice from Asian countries is substantially lower in arsenic; I have no idea why though.

Could be that they didn’t use arsenic based pesticides as much or if they did environmental factors/farming techniques removed the ability for the plants to uptake the arsenic. They might also just have less naturally occurring arsenic in their soil.