hi_its_me@lemmy.world to Cooking @lemmy.world · 2 years agoDo You Need To Wash Rice Before Cooking? Here’s The Sciencewww.iflscience.comexternal-linkmessage-square74linkfedilinkarrow-up188file-text
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minus-squarerhythmisaprancer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up19·2 years agoThese comments are interesting. I have never washed rice, nor even considered it. Now I want to try it out and see what difference I can experience!
minus-squarefilcuk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoSome places mandate added minerals, which will wash off on rinse. Check the packaging. Not that it’s mission critical if you find washed rice better.
minus-squarerhythmisaprancer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoMy understanding has always been that the fortified grains have been treated so because they stripped out the nutrients earlier, like with bleached flour. I don’t buy these products but I very well could be misinformed.
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoLol, yes. Though I guess both are bad
minus-squarerhythmisaprancer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoDoes that wash off? And I always thought (arsenic) was a regional issue. I think from rice grown in SE Asia?
minus-squaresurewhynotlem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoApparently it’s only a minimal help. https://www.fda.gov/food/environmental-contaminants-food/what-you-can-do-limit-exposure-arsenic#:~:text=The FDA research also shows,from polished and parboiled rice Not sure about the regional thing.
These comments are interesting. I have never washed rice, nor even considered it. Now I want to try it out and see what difference I can experience!
Some places mandate added minerals, which will wash off on rinse. Check the packaging.
Not that it’s mission critical if you find washed rice better.
My understanding has always been that the fortified grains have been treated so because they stripped out the nutrients earlier, like with bleached flour. I don’t buy these products but I very well could be misinformed.
Cyanide is bad
You mean arsenic?
Lol, yes. Though I guess both are bad
aww but it tastes soo good
Does that wash off? And I always thought (arsenic) was a regional issue. I think from rice grown in SE Asia?
Apparently it’s only a minimal help.
https://www.fda.gov/food/environmental-contaminants-food/what-you-can-do-limit-exposure-arsenic#:~:text=The FDA research also shows,from polished and parboiled rice
Not sure about the regional thing.