Arsenic in Rice?

Bearfootfarm · #21 09/20/12, 05:27 PM

That's from 1997.
We must all be dead by now, and all the fields must be barren

texican · #22 09/20/12, 08:55 PM

Article I heard said to avoid the arsenic, just add extra water, and drain the excess after cooking....

springvalley · #23 09/20/12, 11:03 PM

Well at least with the news of arsenic in rice , I havn`t heard so much about Kates tata`s being photographed. Hehe > Thanks Marc

Sourdough · #24 09/21/12, 01:38 AM

Strong doses of Arsenic was used to cure Syphilis before penicillin. And it worked, it was called salvarsin.

naturelover · #25 09/21/12, 02:02 AM

If you're really concerned just rinse your rice very, very thoroughly in a sieve under cold running water before you go to cook it. Rinse it for longer than you would usually do - 5 minutes of rinsing should suffice and it will start to get a bit of a swollen and transluscent appearance to it, then cook it as you normally would do. Or, as Em mentioned, you can rinse well then cook it at a ratio of 1 cup of rice to 6 cups of water. I prefer to just give it a very thorough and long rinsing (or a long soak and then rinse in cold water as is my habit - I do the same thing with beans too) then cook it at the usual ratio of water to rice.

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lathermaker · #26 09/21/12, 03:17 AM

I always wash my rice thoroughly before cooking under running water. I use a rice bowl colander with scrubbie sides on it to agitate it. Like I said before, I'm not worried about it.

Rice Washing Colander

This gadget works GREAT! the holes in it are small enough that the rice can't fall through them. I've purchased several for family members.

ldc · #27 09/21/12, 12:53 PM

Thre reason rice from the South has more arsenic in it is supposed to be that many rice fields here were cotton fields earlier, and the pesticides used on cotton used arsenic, of which much has been trapped in the soils. We are talking inorganic arsenic as the danger here, not organic which is found only in traces in soils.