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When it comes toStaples of daily mealsit can be difficult to toprice: Polyvalent grain is a luminaire on dinner tables around the world, with about486.62 million metric tons consumed from 2018 to 2019. And while rice is a major source of food for billions, it is also a carrier of a natural occurrence in the form ofarsenica water-soluble toxin that has been classified as a group 1 carcinogen by theInternational Agency for Cancer Research.

Arsenic accumulates about ten times more rice as other grains due to the fact that it is grown in flooded paddy fields. Toxin accumulates the most in the outer branch layer, which is why non-polished brown rice - which contains 75 to 90% more nutrients - is particularly worrying. Arsenic can be particularly dangerous for babies and children who ingest large quantities thereof.

But, there is good news:A new study found that there is a simple cooking method that can eliminate most of the arsenic found in rice without stripping the elements that make it nutritious. (In touch:21 best healthy cooking hacks of all time.)

The study, which comes from researchers from Sheffield University in UK, showed that the "parboiling with the absorption method" (PBA) can eliminate 50% of the natural arsenic found in brown rice and 74% in white rice.

"Our goal was to optimize the method to eliminate arsenic while maintaining a maximum of nutrients in the cooked rice," Manoj Menon, an environmental scientist in the department of geography at the University of Sheffield and head of the study head stated in a statement. "Our newly developed method, PBA, is easy and friendly so that everyone can use it."

The simple cooking process is to use boiling water to a ratio of four to one to the amount of rice, adding the grains once the water is rolled and cooking rice for five minutes before rejecting the Water (which will contain the deleted arsenic). Then, simply fill the cooking vessel with a ratio of two to one of the fresh rice water, cover and cooking until the water is absorbed.

Menon tellsEat this, not that! Who knowing the quality of the rice you buy can be difficult to establish - and evenRice labeled "developed" is treated differently and should not be confused with the method analyzed in this study. In addition, "even if brown rice is greater than white rice nutrition, as our data show, it contains more Arsenic," says Menon. "With our new method, we are able to significantly reduce Arsenic's exposure without reducing the loss of key nutrients."

Menon says the team has also tested other rice cooking methods, such as rinsing and soaking, but they are not as effective as PBA in the elimination of arsenic. "

That's why the PBA method can be so important to use - especially if you cook for your family. "Infants and children are more vulnerable to exposure to Arsenic than adults," says Menon. "In some crops, cooked rice is used for choking [, what this method is appropriate and recommended. We know that all rice marketed in the UK are safe for infants [or] children as we do found in our previous survey. "

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