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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts) Wed Jun 5, 2013, 09:26 AM Jun 2013

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From Farm to Fork - Infographic from HealthyChild.org (GAH!) (Original Post) TalkingDog Jun 2013 OP

and now we find there is arsenic in rice... dixiegrrrrl Jun 2013 #1

Thanks in particular for the last item. We eat a lot of rice. TalkingDog Jun 2013 #3

we need handmade34 Jun 2013 #2

(60,010 posts)

1. and now we find there is arsenic in rice...

Wed Jun 5, 2013, 09:52 AM

Jun 2013

All the reading I did on ardenic in rice basically says:

*Rice produced in southern states has higher levels of arsenic than rice from Cal.
( oh joy...guess where I live)

*brown rice has higher levels of arsenic than white rice, because the stuff adheres more to the outside of the rice grain.

* USA rice has MORE arsenic than imported basamti or other rices.
( hmmm...I am skeptical of that, as a generalization).

Links, here, about it:
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/11/arsenic-in-your-food/index.htm#recommendations
&
http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm319827.htm

One suggestion for reducing levels of rice in cooking:
http://www.nomeatathlete.com/arsenic-in-rice/

Bon appetit!