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!
New experiments show that by simply boiling the stuff in a pan until the water has steamed out can expose rice lovers to poison arsenic.
Rice becomes contaminated with industrial toxins and pesticides as it grows. Arsenic has been lined to heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
Although popular belief that traces of arsenic are killed when rice is cooked, the truth is that they are only expelled if the rice is soaked overnight.
Researchers found that the steamed out method left only traces of arsenic
When the rice was soaked overnight, toxin-levels went down 80%.
Your best bet is to not only soak it, but then wash and rinse it until the water's clear, before draining and eventually boiling in a saucepan. Make sure you follow a ratio of five parts water to one part rice.
It's already known that rice can lead to other problems,like severe food poisoning.An agency revealed that Uncooked rice can contain spores of bacteria that can cause food poisoning.
When the rice is cooked, the spores can survive. Then, if the rice is left standing at room temperature, the spores will multiply and may produce poisons that cause vomiting or diarrhoea.
Reheating the rice won't get rid of these poisons. So, the longer cooked rice is left at room temperature, the more likely it is that poisons produced could stop the rice being safe to eat.
It's best to serve rice when it has just been cooked. If that isn't possible, cool the rice as quickly as possible (ideally within one hour) and keep it in the fridge for no more than one day until reheating.
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