Paul Saladino· MD
if you insist on eating rice, use lower arsenic rice, basmati or jasmine
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if you insist on eating rice, use lower arsenic rice, basmati or jasmine
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Some rice has less arsenic, 30 to 50 parts per billion. Basmati is lower. Jasmine is lower. And you can cook the rice. It's called the pasta method. You cook the rice in a lot of water. And then you discard the water.
So you hope that some of the arsenic comes out of the rice into the water. Then you dump the water. Most people don't do that. They're doing brown rice or white rice. They put it in a rice cooker. All the water goes into the rice and you're getting a ton of arsenic.