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YSK rice commonly contains arsenic, but most of it can be removed by boiling in water (4:1 ratio) for 5 minutes, and discarding that water before starting the regular cook cycle.

Why you should know:

Arsenic is a carcinogen and has various other negative health effects; enough to warrant exposure limits in various jurisdictions. A five minute boil-and-discard step before cooking is a simple way to reduce your exposure, especially if you eat a lot of rice.

Details are in the study, linked in the title of this post. Here’s a diagram from the abstract:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/2967f12c-7299-442a-a40d-a4925e404a5f.png

scytale ,

It takes 40 mins to fully cook brown rice plus the 5-8 mins it takes for it to boil. This will add 15-20 mins more to overall cooking. As someone who eats rice almost everyday, I’ll probably want to start doing this, but man that’s a lot more time and water wasted 😞

mox OP , (edited )

This will add 15-20 mins more to overall cooking.

You could reduce that to 5-6 minutes by heating your cooking water during the parboil step, rather than after, so it’s ready to go when the parboil is done. In a kettle or second pan, for example.

You could make it 1 minute (the time it takes to replace the parboil water) by also taking 5 minutes off the cooking time, since the rice already spent 5 minutes boiling in the first step.

I hope the fediverse doesn’t cook meals one step at a time. That would take ages. :)

lightnsfw ,

How much arsenic water would you need to distill down to get a useful amount of arsenic?

Brunbrun6766 ,
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Asking, for science

lightnsfw ,

Of course.

Kintarian ,

Scientists of discovered that saliva causes stomach cancer but only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time.

vext01 ,
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And bananas are radioactive. Best leave them a few halflives before scraping the mouldy gunky remains from your fruit bowl.

wallybeavis ,

The microplastics in my body laugh at arsenic’s petty attempt on my life!

https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExdDlpbzd5cXZ2cTEzd3g3MDNyejRsbnNma3Vqc3YwcWVyenh3eWJpbCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/l1AvALOphoaWbxeRa/giphy.webp

AmbiguousProps ,

Give me the arsenic because there is no way I’m overcooking my rice to remove it

explore_broaden , (edited )

This is not suggesting the rice be overcooked, just cooked using a different process.

mox OP ,

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    explore_broaden ,

    Yes, thank you for the correction. I edited it.

    ImplyingImplications ,

    Oh boy, someone better go back and tell all of Asia for the last 10,000 years

    skullgiver ,
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    Neither the rice species nor the way it is prepared is the same as it was 10000 years ago. India has been producing spices for millenia but the massive amounts of arsenic, cadmium, and lead found in spices sold on the Indian market (and sometimes in Indian exports) is still a recent development.

    The world is moving towards a focus on mass production through industrialisation on a record scale. This has an impact on things like the natural water sources, which is where most arsenic in rice is coming from.

    Europe has limits on the amount of arsenic in rice, but I’ve never seen a lack of rice varieties in my supermarkets. You can have rice without huge amounts of arsenic, that’s not a weird thing to ask for.

    explore_broaden ,

    This is a growing problem due to climate change (higher temperatures seem to increase arsenic uptake) and pollutants, so this doesn’t make any sense.

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