The Claim

The optimal cooking process reduces total dietary fiber content by 54.7% in white rice and by 24.8% in brown rice, and processing methods that reduce arsenic levels are associated with these measurable reductions in dietary fiber.

Source: Systematic Investigation of the Reduction of Inorganic Arsenic and Bioactive Nutrients in Rice with Various Cooking Techniques.

What the research says

Roughly balanced

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Challenges
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Quantitative
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In plain English

Cooking white rice in the most effective way to lower arsenic removes 54.7% of its dietary fiber, and cooking brown rice the same way removes 24.8% of its dietary fiber.

See the scientific wording

The optimal cooking process reduces total dietary fiber in 10DOP% white rice by 54.7% and in brown rice by 24.8%, indicating that processing methods that reduce arsenic also lead to measurable losses of beneficial nutrients.

Why this might work

When rice is cooked with excess water, the heat breaks open the grain structure, causing the outer layers to swell and dissolve. Fiber molecules that dissolve in water wash away with the cooking water, leaving less fiber behind in the cooked rice.

Supported mechanismbased on 1 study

What the research says

1 study
  1. Study: Systematic Investigation of the Reduction of Inorganic Arsenic and Bioactive Nutrients in Rice with Various Cooking Techniques.

    The study says you can cook rice to remove arsenic without losing too many good nutrients, which is the opposite of the claim that cooking always removes a lot of fiber. So the claim is too negative.

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