Felicia Wu, John A. Hannah University Distinguished Professor at MSU’s College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, found brown rice increases exposure to arsenic compared to white rice.
This isn’t new information really. As the link mentions, arsenic occurs naturally in the water of different regions and rice absorbs this. Since making white rice involves polishing off the most arsenic-ity part of the rice it isn’t a problem, but brown rice is.
Don’t feed infants and children things sweetened with brown rice syrup and, if you eat shit tons of brown rice, consider cooking it like pasta (boil it in extra water then strain out the excess water, instead of boiling it “dry”). You can also soak it before hand and discard the water. Arsenic is water soluble so any step like this will reduce the arsenic.
Arsenic is a carcinogen but so is low gut motility from not eating enough fiber so you really have to pick your poison.
This isn’t new information really. As the link mentions, arsenic occurs naturally in the water of different regions and rice absorbs this. Since making white rice involves polishing off the most arsenic-ity part of the rice it isn’t a problem, but brown rice is.
Don’t feed infants and children things sweetened with brown rice syrup and, if you eat shit tons of brown rice, consider cooking it like pasta (boil it in extra water then strain out the excess water, instead of boiling it “dry”). You can also soak it before hand and discard the water. Arsenic is water soluble so any step like this will reduce the arsenic.
Arsenic is a carcinogen but so is low gut motility from not eating enough fiber so you really have to pick your poison.