Eat a variety of grains, versus just lots of rice. I was especially
bummed to learn that brown rice has about 80 percent more
arsenic than white rice. It’s because of the otherwise noble
germ, which gets removed to produce white rice. Unfortunately,
arsenic accumulates in that outer layer. This does not mean
that eating white rice is your only option for avoiding arsenic.
Loads of intact whole grains have nutritional profiles similar to
that of brown rice and are just as delicious. They’re similarly
fluffy and nutty to use in a wide range of meals. They include:
amaranth // barley // buckwheat // bulgur // farro // millet
// oatmeal // polenta or gritsDiversify. If you have a habit of ordering the same brown rice
bowl from a restaurant or snacking on rice cakes every after-
noon, mix it up. I have had this very snack habit myself, because
of my profound fondness for a product from Lundberg Family
Farms: dark-chocolate-covered brown rice cakes. Lundberg
tests all its products for arsenic and publishes the results,
which consistently fall under the draft FDA level for infant
cereal and well under the level from the European Food Safety
Authority for brown rice. But even if I had this habit with a
brand that wasn’t so committed to transparency, my arsenic
discovery wouldn’t mean I should ban brown rice cakes from
my diet. It would mean I should diversify my snack routine.
MINIMIZE ARSENIC INTAKE BY RINSING RAW RICE, USING 6 CUPS MINIMIZE ARSENIC INTAKE BY RINSING RAW RICE, USING 6 CUPS
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