Can Cooking Rice This Way Reduce Arsenic?

🍚🌿 DID YOU KNOW? A simple bay leaf can transform the aroma of your rice—but there’s another reason people have experimented with different ways of cooking rice: arsenic.

Rice naturally absorbs more arsenic from soil and irrigation water than many other crops. That’s partly because rice is commonly grown in flooded fields, where certain conditions can make arsenic more available for the plant to absorb.

The good news? How you cook rice can actually make a difference.

Research reviewed by the FDA has found

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