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Wouldn't any technique that washes/leaches arsenic from rice also remove similar amounts of nutrients like essential vitamins and minerals?

• muraiki 11y ago
  A recent Consumer Reports article says: You may be able to cut your exposure to inorganic arsenic in any type of rice by rinsing raw rice thoroughly before cooking, using a ratio of 6 cups water to 1 cup rice, and draining the excess water afterward. That is a traditional method of cooking rice in Asia. The modern technique of cooking rice in water that is entirely absorbed by the grains has been promoted because it allows rice to retain more of its vitamins and other nutrients. But even though you may sacrifice some of rice's nutritional value, research has shown that rinsing and using more water removes about 30 percent of the rice's inorganic arsenic content. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-much-arsenic-is-in-your-rice/index.htm http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2015/01/how-much...
  • dogma1138 11y ago
    Traditional cooking of rice depends on the strain, basmatic / jasmin rice is and was never rinsed. Traditionally only rinse rice strains that have a very high concentration of starch, e.g. Thai white rice or most Japanese rice varieties. If you don't rinse those types of rice you'll get something similar to porridge or boiled flour in texture.
  • peterwwillis 11y ago
    Yep. Sushi rice you soak for 30 minutes, other Japanese varietals you hand wash until the water is clear. You're supposed to use cold water, though I suppose warm water might possibly extract more impurities. Honestly, I don't believe this coffee drip method will work that well, even if it does cook the rice properly (which I doubt). It re-uses the arsenic water unless you toss it, which is a big waste of water. What I would totally buy right now is a drip-coffee-rice-cooker that used a smaller amount of water than a full pot of coffee, but cycled it through a water filter/purifier. At the very least it might lead to tastier rice, though I have no idea if a charcoal or other filter would actually trap/remove arsenic.
• a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
  You eat rice for calories. Not much point in worrying about vitamins in it.
  • marincounty 11y ago
    There are some people who are very poor. I'm glad the FDA is requiring it for enriched rice. I thought enriched rice only had vitamin B, but it has D,C, iron, and more. When I am backpacking; I will buy enriched rice next time. Whenever I think about food, I think about the North Korean that was on here a few weeks ago. He woke me up to the fact we have it pretty good, and just how wrong it can go with the wrong leadership. http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=137.350 http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRS...
• aaron695 11y ago
  > Wouldn't any technique that washes/leaches arsenic from rice also remove similar amounts of nutrients like essential vitamins and minerals? If you poor (real poor not 1st world poor) then this might be an issue. But I think the research is towards rich westerners who can afford coffee percolators and die of things like cancer, not things like rickets.