The Claim
After washing, soaking, and rinsed cooking, arsenic levels in cooked rice remain sufficiently elevated to maintain carcinogenic risk above acceptable thresholds, while non-carcinogenic risks for all other metals are below established safety limits.
What the research says
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Cooking rice by washing, soaking, and rinsing reduces toxic metals, but arsenic levels stay high enough to pose a cancer risk, while risks from other metals are within safe limits.
See the scientific wording
Despite significant reductions in toxic metals through washing, soaking, and rinsed cooking, arsenic levels in cooked rice remain high enough that the carcinogenic risk remains above acceptable thresholds, while non-carcinogenic risks for all metals fall below safety limits.
Rice grains naturally store arsenic in their starchy inner layers, and even after washing and boiling in excess water, the arsenic stays trapped inside the starch structure and does not wash out completely, so people who eat the cooked rice still get a high dose of arsenic that can damage DNA over time.
What the research says
1 studyEven after washing and cooking rice in lots of water, there’s still enough arsenic left to possibly cause cancer, but the other bad metals like lead and cadmium are low enough to be safe.
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