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Lasko77 wrote:Okay.....I know I said I was not going to worry about this but I am now officially worried. This sounds really scary. What are you all going to do with this new info? 2 servings a week!? really?!
And what does "two quarter dry" servings even mean?
HealthFreak wrote:Thanks for the link. I'll look up my favorite rice that I've been buying in 5 lb bags, Eden Organic brown rice.
Urvashi Rangan: We know things like wheat and corn and oats have 5 to 17 times less arsenic than rice does. So it's another good reason to diversify your grains.
danmc wrote:The average inorganic arsenic for all samples from India is 3.26 ppb, and for the U.S. is 6.22 ppb.
danmc wrote:White is even safer than brown, but white is so lacking in nutrients that it's not worth eating, in my opinion.
I found a seller of Indian organic brown basmati rice on ebay here:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trksid= ... i&_sacat=0
danmc wrote:I was looking at a comparison also yesterday; one thing that sticks out is that brown rice has about 8 times the dietary fiber of white.
bbq wrote:IMHO we actually have far more dangerous stuff to worry about and the priority of arsenic might not be our top priority at this point.
ulialen wrote:It is incredible how the richest countries have contaminated also the most used food in the world. And that now we have to buy it from other countries.
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