If you soak your rice in water overnight and then throw out that water before cooking, you’ll end up with rice that has less of the harmful arsenic your body can absorb.
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The study found that washing rice before cooking removes a lot of the harmful arsenic, which is exactly what the claim says happens when you soak rice and throw out the water.
The study found that if you let rice sit in water overnight and then rinse and cook it in lots of water, it gets rid of a lot of the bad arsenic — just like the claim says.
Soaking rice overnight in clean water and throwing out the water makes the rice safer by removing some arsenic — and this study proves it works when you use clean water.
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