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 beingcooked the next day, resulting in an 80 per cent reduction ofthe 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.


Source:
http://www.punchng.com/how-you-cook-rice-can-result-in-hypertension-cancer/

N be smqll thing....no food is safe ds days.

yomi007k:
N be small thing....no food is safe ds days.

Some will not even wash rice before cooking it. They will claim that the quantity of the cooked rice will increase when not washed.

abdrazak:

Some will not even wash rice before cooking it. They will claim that the quantity of the cooked rice will increase when not washed.

Haba.....na wa oo

Lalasticlala, Seun
What did you think?

Most people don't plan to cook rice,most times it happens that you cook it without no intention of cooking it that day so in this case what do we do with the soaking?

Researchers and their confusion

Gbese Re O
Motungbo Titun O
Anyways I'll Start To Fry Or Bake My Own Rice Jeje Cus Ion Wanna Catch All Those Things Op Listed Up There.

subtlemee:
Most people don't plan to cook rice,most times it happens that you cook it without no intention of cooking it that day so in this case what do we do with the soaking?

Researchers and their confusion

The food I know that required soaking a little before taking is garrious (garri).

Rice will now be soaked for approximately 12hrs before cooking.

donolatunji:
Gbese Re O
Motungbo Titun O
Anyways I'll Start To Fry Or Bake My Own Rice Jeje Cus Ion Wanna Catch All Those Things Op Listed Up There.

The technique you can employ is this:
Sun dry ------ Smoke ------ Refrigerate ------ Boil ------- Fry


I hope this helps

abdrazak:
The technique you can employ is this: Sun dry ------ Smoke ------ Refrigerate ------ Boil ------- Fry

I hope this helps

Yea Buh Boil No Dey

don't eat this don't eat DAT...wetin person wan eat self. d other dey talk say ponmo no good, bushmeat no good, meat no good na waooo

Soak overnight

Nma27:
Soak overnight

Nma27
If you want to cook rice in the night, you have to soak it since morning to completely remove the arsenic.

That is craziness of the highest order

abdrazak:

Nma27
If you want to cook rice in the night, you have to soak it since morning to completely remove the arsenic.

That is craziness of the highest order

Gat no time for that. We'll all die one day

Nma27:
Gat no time for that. We'll all die one day

Baba God have already stamped that.

One kind thing is going to kill person one day.