It has been revealed that the way people cook their rice can end up affecting their health very seriously.
In the average home, rice is a must-eat food on a daily basis, especially when you have children around.
It’s so easy to cook — or so many of us assume, what with the unceremonious ways we pour it into the pot and cook it in a jiffy!
Yet, researchers are saying that the way we cook rice can lead to diseases and death!
Scientists warn that rice contains a worrying amount of arsenic, a harmful chemical that can cause heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
According to a group of researchers in Northern Ireland, the way most people cook rice, which is by boiling it in a pan until it absorbs the water, doesn’t get rid of the toxin.
Researchers warn that traces of the poison arsenic – a chemical that contaminates rice as a result of industrial toxins and pesticides used in the growing process – can be found in the rice even after cooking the way we do.

The safest way to cook rice is to soak it overnight first, wash it with cool water the following morning, before finally cooking it.
The researchers found that this reduced arsenic levels by 80 percent.
Chronic exposure to arsenic has recognised links to a range of health problems including heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Thankfully, there’s no reason to panic just yet, as a series of experiments showed that it is possible to reduce our levels of exposure to arsenic by simply changing the way we cook rice.
A professor of biological sciences at Queens University Belfast, Andy Meharg, tested three ways of cooking rice to see whether it altered the levels of arsenic.
In the first method, he used a ratio of two parts water to one part rice, allowing the water to ‘steam out’, as identified above.
In the second, he used five parts water to one part rice, washing off excessive water before serving. This saw the levels of arsenic almost halved.
Finally, the rice was soaked in water overnight before being cooked the next day, resulting in an 80 per cent reduction of the toxin.
For the safest results, the overnight rice should be rinsed until the water is clear, before being drained and boiled in a saucepan using a ratio of five parts water to one part rice.

Soak overnight?

Please who has got that time

Selena06:
Soak overnight?

Please who has got that time

I actually did practice it and the result was topnotch compared to how i used to boil it but the fact is hunger is a respecter of no particular way the rice is cooked!

luckyz4rea:


I actually did practice it and the result was topnotch compared to how i used to boil it but the fact is hunger is a respecter of no particular way the rice is cooked!

When you have stew and boiling rice is the only thing that is available. Hope you will still allow the rice soak overnight and allow the hinger sleep and wake till morning

Selena06:
When you have stew and boiling rice is the only thing that is available. Hope you will still allow the rice soak overnight and allow the hinger sleep and wake till morning

There's always a way out Selen! People have gone to bed on an empty stomach severally including me and i guess you may have too and no king was dethroned because of that!

luckyz4rea:


There's always a way out Selen! People have gone to bed on an empty stomach severally including me and i guess you may have too and no king was dethroned because of that!

Not when you have food. There might not be food and that will happen- no doubt

Selena06:
Not when you have food. There might not be food and that will happen- no doubt

Do i agree with you? Yes! YES!! Yes!!!

luckyz4rea:


Do i agree with you? Yes! YES!! Yes!!!

Haha! Thanks for concuring

Selena06:
Haha! Thanks for concuring

Is your birthday today?

luckyz4rea:


Is your birthday today?

I think so

Selena06:
I think so

Oh! Happy birthday to Selena! Are you 06 years old today? Winks* More fruitful years ahead in God's health!

luckyz4rea:


Oh! Happy birthday to Selena! Are you 06 years old today? Winks* More fruitful years ahead in God's health!

06? You never can tell. Thanks

OP, hope you know that even if we follow your advise and soak rice overnight so we'll rid it of arsenic and not have cancer














we go still die. :p

Cantshout:

It has been revealed that the way people cook their rice can end up affecting their health very seriously.
In the average home, rice is a must-eat food on a daily basis, especially when you have children around.
It’s so easy to cook — or so many of us assume, what with the unceremonious ways we pour it into the pot and cook it in a jiffy!
Yet, researchers are saying that the way we cook rice can lead to diseases and death!
Scientists warn that rice contains a worrying amount of arsenic, a harmful chemical that can cause heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
According to a group of researchers in Northern Ireland, the way most people cook rice, which is by boiling it in a pan until it absorbs the water, doesn’t get rid of the toxin.
Researchers warn that traces of the poison arsenic – a chemical that contaminates rice as a result of industrial toxins and pesticides used in the growing process – can be found in the rice even after cooking the way we do.

The safest way to cook rice is to soak it overnight first, wash it with cool water the following morning, before finally cooking it.
The researchers found that this reduced arsenic levels by 80 percent.
Chronic exposure to arsenic has recognised links to a range of health problems including heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Thankfully, there’s no reason to panic just yet, as a series of experiments showed that it is possible to reduce our levels of exposure to arsenic by simply changing the way we cook rice.
A professor of biological sciences at Queens University Belfast, Andy Meharg, tested three ways of cooking rice to see whether it altered the levels of arsenic.
In the first method, he used a ratio of two parts water to one part rice, allowing the water to ‘steam out’, as identified above.
In the second, he used five parts water to one part rice, washing off excessive water before serving. This saw the levels of arsenic almost halved.
Finally, the rice was soaked in water overnight before being cooked the next day, resulting in an 80 per cent reduction of the toxin.
For the safest results, the overnight rice should be rinsed until the water is clear, before being drained and boiled in a saucepan using a ratio of five parts water to one part rice.

if this is true then I wonder how the Japanese and Chinese are not all dead already, considering that they eat more rice than everyone. in fact, how come they outlive Africans?

If I have to soak my rice over night before boiling, isn't it going to absorb water and when finally cooked become tuwo rice?

Weather na arsenic or arsenal the thing tire me no be small.