In parts of India where the water and soil are naturally polluted with arsenic, rice soaks up way more of this toxic stuff than wheat does—so people who eat a lot of rice are getting more arsenic in...

Scientists found that shorter, stockier types of wheat and rice soak up about half as much toxic arsenic from the soil as the tall, slow-growing kinds—so breeding these shorter crops could help people in dirty areas eat safer food.

Rice from Guyana has more arsenic than rice from Chile, and that might mean people eating it could face higher health risks.

Washing your rice and wheat with three times as much water as grain before cooking can wash away some harmful arsenic, which might lower your chance of getting cancer if you eat these foods every day.

Eating rice might increase cancer risk in people from Guyana and Chile because of arsenic in the rice — especially in Guyana, where the risk is high enough to be a real concern.